On Wednesday 21 December 2005 20:10, Bill Crompton wrote: > I have installed Mandriva twice on my hdd.since i am a newbie,i like a > fresh start each since i mess up things by my R&D! > I have seen each time i install mandriva it reformats the drive.why does > this repeated when my partition is of ext2 linux type.is their any way we > can avoid it?i am going to install mandriva2006 soon.my computer vendor has > adviced against frequent reformats as its not healthy for the drive. > any suggestions? > > also tell me how do i scandisk and defragment the drive?
1. When installing, you can leave previously formatted partitions like /home as they are. There's an option in the graphical installer to do this. 2. Don't use ext2. Use a journalling file system like ReiserFS or ext3. 3. Your computer vendor doesn't know what he is talking about. 4. No, I will not tell you, because it isn't necessary. Only childish systems like Windows need this sort of things. ;-) Kaj Haulrich. -- ***Sent from a 100% Microsoft-free PC*** ***Running Linux (Mandriva 2006)*** ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
