I have had problems with Win defrag on my dual boot system. 98 does something to my
secondary drive. That drive is partitioned 2Gig for Win and 4Gig for linux. This drive
was partitioned with linux fdisk. I had to turn off defragging my second drive
altogether. I use loadlin and since have had no probs with defragging since this is
not my boot drive for win.
Brian D. Klar - CVE
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lyndon Lininger Sr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 12:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux
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.
----- Original Message -----
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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