Tom,
Tell that mis-understanding part to one of my 3 HDD's on my system. Used
FIPS on it once a long time ago when I was new to Linux, and it hasn't
been the same since. That "useful" little utility scrambled it's eggs so
bad that I wasn't sure I was going to get it back. I wasn't able to get it
back until I went at it with Partition Magic, and luckily was able to
rescue most of the data on the drive curtousy of Norton Utilities. I got
lucky. Some I've known weren't so lucky after using FIPS.
So, it's not a "belief" it's a cold, hard reality of experience. One that
thankfully I've learned from.
--
Mark
I love my Linux Box...
REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
Registered Linux user # 182496
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > something else I forgot to mention. NEVER use FIPS on a HDD that you
> > intend to use all the time, or one that you intend to keep. Use FIPS and
> > you're welcoming any and all problems that you can imagine on your
> > HDD. Overlapping partitions is one of the most common problems associated
> > with the program and just the beginning of your sorrows.
> >
> > --
> > Mark
>
>
> Mark, you're welcome to that belief if you wanna keep it, but
> user lack of understanding and use shouldn't be blamed on perfectly
> good utilities.
>
> Biggest problems with partitioning and formatting drives for any
> OS, with any OS's tools, is most all of us do it only on rare
> occasions an aren't that sharp at using the tools. Next source of
> heartache would prob'ly be the hardware some of us trustingly buy.
> Last on the list would be the OS and the utilities that come with
> it, includin FIPS.
>
> --
> ~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
