Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Don't blame Linux for *reporting* the fact that something went wrong rather than just blasting things. In addition, lost+found often offers a "second chance" in many cases that Windows will not.
I had an external USB connected ATA100 drive that had a problem I was not aware of. AT some point, it had crashed or become disconnected from the USB. I had some game files on it (Never Winter Nights for Linux) with many save games, as well as other data I cared about. fsck placed all the data into lost+found. There were about 10,000 directories and files, each named for the inode they came from. All "lost" data from the drive was intact in these dirs. and files, and every one of them was readable with standard Linux tools.
Last time I saw a Windows system crash like that, I ended up with a boatload of binary files I could not make heads or tails of. I can't count on my entire family's fingers and toes the number of times I've had a Windows system crash (due to power outage or something else) where it's totally screwed up important data on the drive(s).
Don't even get me started on Exchange server crashes! PGA -- Paul G. Allen, BSIT/SE Owner, Sr. Engineer Random Logic Consulting http://www.randomlogic.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
