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6 AristotlePagaltzis 1 [Ext2] is the Extended Filesystem, version 2. It grew out of the [MinixFS], which had some very strict limitations.
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6 AristotlePagaltzis 3 [Ext2] used to be the default FileSystem for almost every [Linux] box for many many years. It is rock-solid and has an excellent fsck(8) which can recover from most situations. Very little data has been lost from [Ext2] partitions, even though it has no journalling support. Another problem is that its directory handling doesn't scale well to large directories.
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6 AristotlePagaltzis 5 Therefore, with growing HardDisk capactites its new successor [Ext3] with journalling support has become popular.
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6 AristotlePagaltzis 7 See also:
7 AristotlePagaltzis 8 * PartitioningSuggestions
6 AristotlePagaltzis 9 * [Linux Ext2fs Undeletion mini-HOWTO | http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html]
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