Re: using e2fsck and un mounting
Samuel Sieb:
> 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).
Bill Cunningham:
I thought it was involved in "swapping". Like a swap file
my bad.
File system journalling is about all writing to a drive being done as a
sequence (this write, then that update, then the next update). During
a crash, hopefully you only lost the last bit of writing, and what was done before that is
still there.
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