On 6/27/2022 8:57 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 6/27/22 17:37, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>
> On 6/27/2022 8:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> Did you mean to send this off-list?
>>
>> On 6/27/22 17:01, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>>> <off point> ext2, yes version 2 I use, was mounted RO at a later
>>> point, SO I used mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda3 /. To remount to be
>>> able to change the fstab and save to a rw filesystem. <off point>
>>
>> Why are you using ext2? That's probably the biggest cause of your
>> problems. Otherwise, it would have most likely repaired itself.
>>
> It will run fsck, but missed a few things anyway. IDK that journals
> are needed so much anymore with memory management being what it is.
> If anything, btrfs I would think would be better. Maybe lvm. I'm only
> using 30 GB anyway. I usually don't have this problem.
The journal has nothing to do with memory management. It's about
filesystem protection. btrfs would also be better because it is
always "journaled" (not exactly, but fairly equivalent).
I thought it was involved in "swapping". Like a swap file my bad.