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
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