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Re: [opensuse] ext3 check forced = frustration
- From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:34:45 -0500
- Message-id: <47B98975.6000004@xxxxxxxxxx>
Clayton wrote:
If a laptop received such a bump during writing, the result would be a disk error, because the written data isn't where it's supposed to be, fragmented or not. That is not the same thing as fragmentation, where by file system design, data simply gets written in the next convenient spot, whether it's large enough to hold the file or not. If not big enough, the overflow goes to the next convenient spot etc.
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????Are laptops less susceptible to filesystem corruption?
:-) certainly not. Possibly more so due to the more thumps and bumps
a laptop has to endure.
If a laptop received such a bump during writing, the result would be a disk error, because the written data isn't where it's supposed to be, fragmented or not. That is not the same thing as fragmentation, where by file system design, data simply gets written in the next convenient spot, whether it's large enough to hold the file or not. If not big enough, the overflow goes to the next convenient spot etc.
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