Stebalien wrote:Also, GRUB works with ext4 so you don't need to format /boot with ext2.If use ext4 for /boot, is it safe to use noatime? I.e. what I'm wondering is whether GRUB will be adversely affected like some programs are.
Over the past week there has been a lot of talk about the EXT4 file-system following the announcement that Google is migrating their EXT' file-systems to EXT4. Their reasons for this transition to EXT4 are attributed to the easy migration process and Google engineers are pleased with this file-syste ...
I was wondering if ext4 is stable enough for production use? I have read through most of the ext4 reviews but they are a little dated, most of them referring to ubuntu 9.04 and the 2.6.28 kernel. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
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Earlier this year Google announced they would be switching to the EXT4 file-system on their Linux servers (previously they were still using the mature EXT2) and at the same time it was made available they had hired Ted Ts'o, the lead developer of this file-system currently in use by a...
I have seen that Ubuntu 11.10 is offering Ext4 as default file system. As I have googled some time on ext4 and found that ext3 is quite stable that ext4 as it still has some bugs.
Even the Ubuntu Documentation is referring Ext3. Link
So, I would like to know whether Ext4 is currently stable on 11.10 or not than Ext3
I've got an external disk with 6 partitions: 4 for linux, one storage in HFS+, and one storage in ext4. I'd like to delete the ext4 storage one and move it's resulting unallocated space into my HFS+ one, but in GParted, I delete the ext4, and it becomes unallocated. But when I try to resize my HFS+, I can't enter a new value for "New size (MiB)", and the up arrow for it's size is disabled.
Is there a way to encrypt a folder, which is not in /home but even in a different partition, so only my user can access/read contained files?
Alternatively, I would like to understand if it is possible to turn a complete ext4 partition into an encrypted volume, which would be mounted at user login.
If possible, I would like to make the change without reinstalling Ubuntu.
My PC has (mount output):
Few weeks back I installed linux as a virtual machine on my windows 7 system but I didn't gave much thought to(or miscalculated) the size of various partitions and even worse I'm not using 'lvm'. Today I tried to installed Qt 5.0 SDK which required around 500MB of space in /tmp which I didn't had but other partitions had quite a bit of space.
I have an external USB drive (/dev/sdb) with two partitions: NTFS (sdb1) and ext4 (sdb2).
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