Sean Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK, the two messages previous posts kind of play off eachother so I'm >going to reply to them in one go. First off ext2, it has a really bad >habit of losing files in hard crashes and power outages, this isn't a >problem for someone like you or I as we know how to recover them, for a >student with no root and no knowledge of how to do this, it's called a >couple of hours work down the tubes.
I have to say, I've never lost a file to an ext2 disk crash, nor even had to go any further than the odd prompted "run fsck manually" to recover it, and at one stage I ran a Cyrix P166+ that crashed every twelve hours due to overheating. (Needless to say, I only put up with this for a week or two before stretching my then-student budget enough to buy a half-decent CPU and motherboard.) My Linux box at work also occasionally hangs solidly for mysterious hardware reasons: same thing, never suffered any filesystem damage whatsoever nor had to put any effort into keeping it that way. This doesn't seem like much of a "bad habit" to me. I've never used NT (apart from occasional five-minute stints as a user), so I can't compare it to NTFS. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
