On Friday 12 December 2008 06:28, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > Hi, > > If it's not done yet then please wipe the beginning and end of the device > when creating tux3 as the other mkfs utilities do. Not doing so can result > nasty random mount failures or data corruptions when overwritten FOO file > system mounted or tried to be mounted as FOO, or a valid tux3 mounted or > tried to be mounted as FOO after fs type autodetection which is fairly > undeterministic. > > We just had a NTFS corruption report when a user accidentially overwrote > his NTFS. Thankfully we found the tux3 signature, tux3 mounted fine then > the user also confirmed he was testing tux3 and formatted the wrong > partition. > > Thanks, > Szaka >
Set the first 4K and last sector to zero? Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Tux3 mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.tux3.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tux3
