I've never had a problem on a dual boot system with defraging the windows
partitions. You must have been very unlucky or your hard drive got flaky.
Lyndon Lininger Sr.
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From: "D. R. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux
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> On 20 Apr 00, at 14:33, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
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> > What happened? Windows defrag destroyed the superblock of
> > primary partition /dev/hda2 although it was told to just defrag
> > "C:"! The other partitions where untouched and without errors.
> >
>
> Wow! I really appreciate this posting.
>
> Normally I defrag my Windows junk every couple of months. Having just put
> Linux on my brand new Win98 box, I hadn't given a moment's thought to
> changing this practice, and fully expected to do a defrag sometime in the
> next month or so. Now I won't!
>
> This seems so fundamental that I'm surprised I haven't seen words to this
> effect somewhere else. Or maybe you were just very, very (un)lucky.
>
> Doc Evans
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