From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G31pQ-0002te-CO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:30:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6J2TAJh015442; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:29:10 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6J2LtMv017089 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:21:55 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so57026nfc for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:21:55 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=YHqJ2pPSslEw8yOkNukiHwRlIT9panlrzevXXmHLA3/VCzDSxWk/husdTEfSJUMamMK4UwmhOJQazlKqpEcVS/DxUpkWSGIBNYlML2i9Ce7lH+C0MAA/ARyEiypmVjLRAqFN3MGA78ZVXEbeq/H16iHrGepVZ1r2BQkyRsTQO88= Received: by 10.78.116.19 with SMTP id o19mr84073huc; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:20:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.97.4 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:20:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7bef1f890607181920v6db73a1j1b23a1427b9e32dd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:20:25 +1000 From: "Alan E. Davis" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation: which file system? In-Reply-To: <44BD8BA1.3080600@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7573e9640607181501o49546aa8ref4e2dd2ee0ec12@mail.gmail.com> <7573e9640607181638w51ae2178p66721bf54e17de28@mail.gmail.com> <44BD7C15.8030600@vista-express.com> <44BD7DCA.2060903@gentoo.org> <1153271636.3839.80.camel@devilbox> <44BD8BA1.3080600@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: dbdd0dd3-d151-4604-abe7-0737cd24d523 X-Archives-Hash: 898c0d88d2ee0981796fccc3047e0c6b PREFACE: I don't know what I'm talking about, but.... Seriously, I can't even tread water with these guys, but I installed GNU/Linux on a gateway laptop with a recover partition. I believe I did a defrag, but it's been a long time, but for sure, I was left with the impression at one point that there were some files in the NTFS, nearer to the end of the partition than I'd have liked. I tried qtparted/gparted from several different live cds, knoppix and ubuntu, I believe. I think my first install was Ubuntu, but I had to use knoppix to repartition. This has been an issue a couple of times. Various *parteds gave different results. I was able to shrink the NTFS partition far more than I thought would be possible, and I bit the bullet and just did it, thinking it would fail, but who cares, I'm only keeping NTFS/XP because the school district gave me the machine, and they might require me to run a gradebook. Again, I've shrunk the NTFS a couple more times, since I don't use it much, and no problems in any of the FEW times I've run Windoze. If you are thinking of hosing your partitions, I'd suggest trying other, more up to date, maybe, LiveCDs, and one of them might work. Just don't quote me on this. Alan Davis On 7/19/06, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Cliff Wells wrote: > > I'd be curious who this is well-know to. The only XFS filesystem I've > > ever lost (having used XFS exclusively since SGI started offering it on > > RH 7.?) was due to bad RAM. There *have* been a couple of issues that > > I'm aware of, but I'd hardly call it "sucking". > > I'm too lazy to search all over the net for xfs "power outage" or "power > loss", here's a couple of examples: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/181355/ > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap4 > > Thanks, > Donnie > > > > > -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan lngndvs@gmail.com 1-670-256-2043 I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. --------Richard Stallman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list