RE: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions

[Mike & Tracy Holt]

>NEVER, I Say NEVER, run Scandisk.
>It makes more errors than i fixes.
>If your PC is going slow, format the drive or delete the partition, and
>install Linux again!!
>
>Microsoft Scandisk should NEVER have been invented..!


Ouch!  I wouldn't go that far.  Scandisk does work well, I have had it find
and fix errors for me without a hitch.  I currently multi-boot linux, win98,
win2000 pro and win 2000 server (server is for educational purpose) and
there has been even more in the past.  I've had only one problem with an OS
corrupting another's filesystem and that was a bug in the windows 2000 mbr
recovery tool.  Scandisk shouldn't be any kind of problem as long as you're
not trying to use it on your Linux partition (which I don't think is even
possible?)

Mike