Tagged: fedora

Time to try fedora again?

July 16, 2010 Posted by mitch | fedora, ubuntu | 0 Comments

Its been almost 5 years since I last used fedora... especially on my desktop... I've become jadded by the age of RHEL/CentOS and the lack of up-to-date software packages which pushed me to Ubuntu... however... the latest releases of Fedora look intriguing. That paired with my latest projects at work and the sheer cool factor of func and how much easier it would make things...

I probably will need to give it a try...


Lost everything on my home computer :(

January 28, 2005 Posted by mitch | fedora, gentoo, linux | 0 Comments

I haven't updated in a while because my home computer has been out of commission for a while... Not sure what happened... For some reason, both Gentoo, and Fedora have corrupted ext3 partions on my computer... Not sure if its because of the via_sata driver, hardware, or a combination of them. Any how, this last time, it corrupted my home partion and I had fsck running but it was taking *days* to run. I even stoped it and restarted it from a knoppix CD, and the fedora disk 1. They all took forever, and still didn't seem like it fixed anything when they were done. So, I lost everything.... I hadn't bought the Dual DVD/CD burner yet, so I didn't have any backups... which is completely my fault. Anyhow, this time around I'm going with a different filesystem for my home partion. XFS is what I desided to go with. I did some research a while ago and looked into its benifits and it seems to have quite a few. Dispite not being officially supported by Fedora, I think it will be able to handle my 107GB partion better than ext3. ReiserFS would have been my other choice, but found on the fedorafaq site that SELinux won't work on anything but ext3 and XFS. That sealed the deal, XFS it is. I'm currently loading it up right now, so far so good.


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