On Wednesday 21 Dec 2005 20:41, James M0TJC wrote: > Power reliability is excellent here, and on the rare occasion that an > outage has occurred (even for a split second, due to a local > lightning strike), then fsck has caused all kinds of problems > deleting inodes and the like, and generally borking my KDE settings! > You certainly need a journalled system then. You would get the 'Hit any key to run fsck' and you just ignore it. The journal will sort it out.
> So, the next burning question is, can it be converted to ext3 (in a > similar way that Windows can be converted from FAT32 to NTFS?), or > will it have to be a reinstall? > IIRC you can convert it in Mandriva Control Center > Mount Points. There is a small command-line program that can do it also, but I can't recall its name. You certainly don't need a reinstall. Anne -- Mandriva Community Wiki - http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org/ Registered Linux User No.293302 - http://counter.li.org/
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