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How to share /home directory between two linux installations

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Frequent re-installations of operating system due to crashes is always been a problem for many of the linux users, and my case is also the same.... Everytime i start with doing something like trying some new commands or editing some configuration files and finally ends up with an 'OS crash' and a fresh installation thereafter.

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Created by jintujacob 11 years 26 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 26 weeks ago
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What's The Fastest Linux Filesystem On Cheap Flash Media?

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Compact Flash and SD storage cards are everywhere; gigabytes for cheap in a tiny form factor. Most come formatted with VFAT. So what is the fastest Linux filesystem for these little devices?

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Created by lozz 11 years 30 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 30 weeks ago
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Secure Deletion Tools and Journaled Filesystems: Do they work?

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By now, everyone knows that if you want to make a file unrecoverable, you can't simply delete it - you have to use a tool like 'shred' or 'srm' to overwrite its contents. But a common question is whether this is effective on an ext3, ext4, or other journaled filesystems. This article discusses these filesystems, and whether secure deletion tools work on them.

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Created by nemilar 11 years 34 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 33 weeks ago
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Convert ext2/3 to ext4

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In this article I am going to show you how to migrate your ext2 or ext3 partition to ext4. I will use a Ubuntu machine as an example. I want to warn you that you could lose data by doing this so, following good administrative practices, back up your data!

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Created by l0g1c0l 11 years 40 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 40 weeks ago
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How We Are Using Btrfs To Find Regressions Incredibly Fast

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One of the features of Btrfs not found in other Linux file-systems (like EXT4) is support for copy-on-write snapshots / sub-volumes.

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Created by lozz 11 years 47 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 47 weeks ago
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EXT3, EXT4, Btrfs Ubuntu Netbook Benchmarks

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We received a request from Canonical to look at the EXT3 performance. We have done just that.

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Created by linuxlooooser 12 years 14 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 13 weeks ago
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Choosing a File System on Linux for Firebird

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If I could choose one word to speak about Linux it would be "choice". After choosing the distribution, you have to choose the file system to store your data. Today, we have mainly the choice between Etx2, Ext3, Ext4 and XFS. Let's see whether different file systems have an impact on performance when we use Firebird databases.

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Created by mariuz 12 years 18 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 18 weeks ago
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The Performance Of EXT4 Then & Now

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Over the past week there has been a lot of talk about the EXT4 file-system following the announcement that Google is migrating their EXT2 file-systems to EXT4. Their reasons for this transition to EXT4 are attributed to the easy migration process and Google engineers are pleased with this file-system's performance.

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Created by sonysuxx 12 years 18 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 18 weeks ago
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Improving MetaData Performance of the Ext4 Journaling Device

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In the never-ending quest for more performance, we examine three different journaling device options for ext4 with an eye toward improving metadata performance. Who doesn't like speed?

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Created by samharry 12 years 21 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 21 weeks ago
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Trisquel hackers promised to make ext4 default in next release

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"Our next release will use ext4 as default, to achieve the same performance without this downside. I'll create a "next release features" wiki page starting with this one, so I'm closing the bug now."

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Created by can.axis 12 years 34 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 33 weeks ago
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Migrating a live system from ext3 to ext4 filesystem

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This article is meant to serve as a guide for migrating a live system from ext3 to an ext4 filesystem, including migration of files to use extents, a major feature in ext4.

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Created by emacsfanatic 12 years 38 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 38 weeks ago
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EXT4, Btrfs, NILFS2 Performance Benchmarks

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The past few Linux kernel releases have brought a number of new file-systems to the Linux world. Being the benchmarking junkies that we are, we have set out to compare the file-system performance of EXT4, Btrfs, and NILFS2 under Ubuntu using the Linux 2.6.30 kernel.

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Created by Sun 12 years 47 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 47 weeks ago
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Enter ext4, the filesystem of the future

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The ext4 filesystem has been around for a while as experimental code in GNU/Linux distributions. Recently one distribution decided to make it the default for an install.

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Created by noodly appendage 12 years 48 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 48 weeks ago
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Linus Torvalds Upset over Ext3 and Ext4

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It all started with a request for help from Jesper Krogh in one of the first responses to Torvalds's announcement March 24 of Kernel 2.6.29 on the gmane.linux.kernel mailing list.

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Created by pravat 13 years 8 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 8 weeks ago
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Kernel developers squabble over Ext3 and Ext4

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A number of senior kernel developers, including Linus Torvalds, Ted Ts'o, Alan Cox and Ingo Molnar, have been squabbling over the sense or otherwise of journaling and delayed allocation in Ext3 and Ext4.

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