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- From: M.Gream@uts.EDU.AU (Matthew Gream)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: How stable is extended filesystem?
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 03:53:29 GMT
- Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
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- Charles Hannum (mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote:
-
- : I've only been using Linux for two days. I've installed it on a 300MB
- : "extended" partition. Half of one of those days was spent reinstalling
- : after it barfed on my disk.
-
- : If you don't *need* extfs, and don't mind short file names, I would
- : recommend not using it for now.
-
- On the contrary, I have had linux on my 386 box for several months now
- with two (44 & 56 meg) partitions, only ever having one minor problem
- with extfs (that being a file that wouldnt die). My drives are vanilla
- IDE's, so SCSI or other setups maybe different.
-
- Maybe ive been lucky and escaped problems (considering that nothing major
- has ever broken for me under linux, this could be true ;)).
-
- Matthew.
-
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