I have two questions, that are only related by the problems I've been having with a maxtor external hard drive.
One, I'm thinking of getting a mac, and would like to know what linux file systems are compatible with mac. My external hard drive is now using reiser, but I know that mac doesn't support this. Out of curiosity, what file system does osx use? Also, will I be able to listen to my ogg files with a mac? Two, I've been having problems with the hard drive. A while ago several directories turned into flat files, and ll returned a bunch of question marks as permissions. Reiserfsck --check revealed problems and advised running --rebuild-tree, but I didn't want to because I don't have backups of most of my music. I use the drive to back up my laptop, but I don't have space on the laptop for all the music. Now the whole music directory is fried, so I ran --rebuild-tree twice (it took about 16 hrs each time for a 160g drive) and it aborts after finishing the first pass (pass 0), leaving the drive unmountable and me not knowing what to do. I'm attaching the error message, just in case. I'm assuming that I'm screwed and am going to have to reformat; I think that there isn't any possiblity of recovering the data. Any suggestions for file systems? My hypothesis is that several times when the power was turned off and then on at the circuit breaker, the resulting charge was too much for the drive. Are there any other possibilities? What can I do to keep this from happening in the future? ON my list of purchases is one of those surge protectors with battery backup. Thanks in advance ned __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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