Luckily, this has not been my experience. I partitioned Win and Linux
using Partition Magic 5.0. LILO is not in my MBR; Winblows does not know
Linux exists; defrag works correctly; and Win files are on my KDE
desktop.
Pj
Lyndon Lininger Sr. wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> >
> > > 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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