Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2006-12-25 at 14:44 -0500, John E. Perry wrote:
So, two weeks ago, I got what I see as good reason -- my / partition was suddenly unavailable after a zen update. fsck.reiser brought everything back, but that's what finally made install 10.2 (which everyone is saying is much better than 10.1 (my experince agrees).
And... didn't you ever have to fsck any ext3 partition to recover from some dissaster, sucessfully I hope?
No. All my linux experience has been with ext2, and all my professional experience has been with VMS, various RTOS's, MSDOS, Windows, and small standalone systems. I never had a crash that I couldn't identify as a hardware problem, and I never dug deep enough into linux to learn all the intricacies of file systems and such. I only dumped Windows two years ago because suse9.0 appeared to work well enough that I could depend upon it for my contract work. OpenOffice was the trigger -- it meant I could deal with clients chained to Windows without being chained myself. So I didn't have to get XP and Office. That's a normal thing for any
filesystem. All can get corrupted - otherwise, the fsck utility would not even exist.
Sure. But it's rare enough with ext2 that I never had a problem that I couldn't identify as a hardware disk crash, and several people on this list complained of mysterious reiser3 partition corruption. As I say, I didn't take them too seriously until it happened to me. -- John Perry Embedded Electronics (757)813-6109 j.e.perry@cox.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org