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-[Ext3] is a journaled FileSystem based on [Ext2]. It also has some additional features such as extents (which reduce the amount of overhead with storing where a file is stored on the disk for large files), and hash based lookups on directories solving the problem [Ext2] has with large directories being very slow.
+[Ext3] is a journaled FileSystem based on [Ext2]. It also has some additional features such as extents (which reduce the amount of overhead with storing where a file is stored on the disk for large files), and hash based lookups on directories solving the problem [Ext2] has with large directories being very slow. [Ext4] is the next generation of this filesystem
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Note that despite journalling, you should periodically fsck(8) [Ext3] FileSystem~s to ensure they are consistent. HardDisk errors can still introduce problems.
You can turn [Ext2] FileSystem~s into [Ext3] ones at any time by issuing