Ravi Parimi wrote:

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>I am not sure why your windowmanager settings got changed - hard to
>believe that it could be because of the crash. Which distribution and
>version are you using? The latest distros(Red Hat, Suse, Debian etc. )
>all give you the option of formatting partitions with a journaling
>filesystem such as ext3 or reiserfs. Journaling filesystems maintain
>transaction logs of all changes being done to a filesystem and are
>better at recovering from crashes than non-journaling filesystems like
>ext2. With a proper plan in mind, you can also migrate your existing
>filesystem to a ext3 or reiserfs.
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I am running Debian (woody) and using window maker.   is there any 
particular reason for choosing ext3 or reiserfs?  I know that they are 
journaling file systems...but outside of that what's the difference 
between ext3 and reiserfs?  Which one would be more forgiving to a plebe 
like me missing up my computer? ;-)  I've been trying to tweak this 
system as much as possible, so I've had a few lock ups here and there 
trying to get things working.