[Wine] Very Strange and Probably Obscure Problem

[Martin Gregorie]

On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 11:59 -0500, lmn40227 wrote:
> If I am making a mistake, or there is a better way to do this, then I
> would greatly appreciate any advise.
> 
Depends which filing system you're using. ext3 probably is adversely
affected by bad blocks in the journal but ext4, which checksums journal
blocks, should detect them. Personally, I wouldn't try disabling
journalling. In any case, its only makes a difference if there were
files open and being written to at the time of the crash. If you've
successfully booted since then, the journal will have been used during
start-up so disabling it becomes somewhat moot. That said, the easiest
way of disabling it is to change the partition entries in /etc/fstab to
ext2. 

At present its a case of 'you pays your money and takes your choice'
between the two because each has minor gotchas not shared by the other.
My boxes currently use ext2 for /boot and a mix of ext3 and ext4 for the
other partitions (I keep /home in a separate partition for faster
upgrades and also have an encrypted partition). I'm not planning to
change this until Fedora 18, when I'll think about moving to btrs.  


Martin