--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/19/2010 01:45 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > All my research recommended NOT using a journaling > filesystem like ext3 on SSDs. It wears them out > faster. Although, I did read one article where the > writer actually crunched numbers, and concluded that SSDs > made within the past couple of years have a mean "write" > life equal to a typical hard drive. However, I decided > to play it safe, and went with ext2. > > > > I have too many personal failures with ext2 to go with it > any more. Now granted most of them were with DSL on a > wonderful Toshiba Libretto 110CT (64Mb memory max) with a > 4Gb drive, but it got tiresome dealing with a broken drive > and needing to reinstall yet again. > > A big thing is the noatime option. Turn this puppy > OFF. I think the noatime option was set during the initial install on the EeePC 900 I configured. I used Eeebuntu 3.0, not Fedora, and a lot of things that aren't normally done on a typical install were as it was EeePC-specific. As the computer was a gift, I can't check right now. Thanks for the advice. B -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines