On Mon January 5 2004 12:07 am, mjt wrote:
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 23:31:26 -0500, "Paul W. Abrahams"
wrote: I have a hard drive that works perfectly well under Linux but Partition Magic thinks it's incorrectly formatted. I've heard that there's some disagreement between PowerQuest (the company that wrote PM) and the Linux world over what the correct format of a partition table is; each thinks the other has it wrong. Does anyone on this list know about the disagreement and the best way to get around it? (The SuSE database yields nothing.)
... i've used PM for quite a long time and recently got frustrated at its slant to the microsoft world. i gave up on it and system commander ... quite frankly, i dont care what PM reports anymore :)
PM would report errors - none of those errors were correctible by PM (though they claim they'd be fixable).
you just have to weight the options [of the tools' with the outcomes for your particular situation and make a decision :) IOW, what is the predominate system on your box and what is its dependency on a tool such as PM?
Another option is the Acronis Partition Expert... which also supports most of the linux FS's. And it uses a linux kernel as it's base even though it sometimes looks like a Windows program. The only FS it doesn't handle is XFS (JFS too?) and I expect that it will whenever they switch to a kernel that natively supports XFS. But I think you'll find that it plays nicely with the linux partition tables. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 01/05/04 09:38 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tracey's Time Observation: "Good times end too quickly. Bad times go on forever."