> >
> >I am not sure why your windowmanager settings got changed - hard to
> >believe that it could be because of the crash. Which distribution and
> >version are you using? The latest distros(Red Hat, Suse, Debian etc. )
> >all give you the option of formatting partitions with a journaling
> >filesystem such as ext3 or reiserfs. Journaling filesystems maintain
> >transaction logs of all changes being done to a filesystem and are
> >better at recovering from crashes than non-journaling filesystems like
> >ext2. With a proper plan in mind, you can also migrate your existing
> >filesystem to a ext3 or reiserfs.
> >
> I am running Debian (woody) and using window maker.   is there any
> particular reason for choosing ext3 or reiserfs?  I know that they are
> journaling file systems...but outside of that what's the difference
> between ext3 and reiserfs?  Which one would be more forgiving to a plebe
> like me missing up my computer? ;-)  I've been trying to tweak this
> system as much as possible, so I've had a few lock ups here and there
> trying to get things working.


It has been a long time since I installed Debian, but I think it does give
an option for formatting all partitions using reiserfs. About the
differences between ext3 and reiserfs, it is hard to say unless you are a
core developer on one of these teams ;) Redhat's supports ext3 on all its
distributions(>= 7.2) and Suse and Debian seem to have a liking for
reiserfs. SGI's XFS is also a very good journaling fs. There is constant
development going on in each of these teams but personally, I think
reiserfs is a lot more cooler than ext3. You might come across
benchmarking results for each of these filesystems. For the common user,
any journaling fs is better than no journaling fs at all. It becomes
critical for servers where uptime is very important and one cannot afford
the lenngthy fsck checks upon sudden reboots.


--ravi