Reviewing the Basics

摘要

A few months ago, a friend of mine who knows I work for Linux Journal asked if I could help him install a Linux distribution on his home computer. He's a part-time student and didn't want a repeat of a situation from last semester: having rebooted his system after it crashed, he discovered the document file he'd been writing was corrupted. This wasn't the first time he'd "lost" work, and he wanted to know if there was another OS option. We switched him to the latest Red Hat, which uses the journaling ext3 filesystem, and so far things have run smoothly.