[lug] Re: help on new disk. Speed and formatting issues

[Phil Rasch]

Sorry I mean I dont like the "ext3" filesystem chirping stuff
mentioned below...

Phil
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:30:03PM -0700, Phil Rasch wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 "John Hernandez" <John.Hernandez at noaa.gov> wrote
> > 
> > | I decided I wanted a journalled file system on most of it, so I
> > | repartitioned it (three partitions sda1, sda2, sda2) with parted,
> > | and formatted it with reiserfs(sda2 and sda2) and mke2fs (sda1). I am
> > | not quite sure why I used an ext2 file system on sda1 but that is what
> > | I chose.
> > 
> > 
> > If desired, you can add a journal to your ext2 filesystem by using
> > 'tune2fs -j /dev/sda1', then mount it as ext3.
> > 
> 
> There is one thing that I dont like about ext2f filesystems. This is
> the disk access that takes place every 5 seconds or so on each file
> system. The incessant chirping is like chinese water torture to me. (I
> am running ext3 on the internal disk on this laptop and it is bugging
> me as we speak. I thought it worthwhile to try again.
> 

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