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.