Powering off a system is never good. Damage can vary from minor to significant. EXT3 seems to handle this well enough. XFS and Rieser do not. I'm surprised to hear the EXT4 did what it did. Obviously it is not as stable as EXT3. I'm using EXT4 and have not had any issues but I have not had to hard boot the OS either. I chose it based on its speed.
-Chris On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:04 PM, John Rivera <[email protected]> wrote: > Yesterday I was creating a custom version of ubuntu with > reconsteructor for my buddy, then I was pleased to see that my > filesystem(ext4) had lost contact with the os, so I shut it off cold, > and I also realized that I had programming class in a few minutes, so > I packed up and up and went to class, apparently some files neccesary > to load gui were courupted, my teacher told me that I should boot into > single user mode and drop into shell, I did that then an fsck, after > being notified of five quadrillion filesystem errors, I shut down and > decided to try to recover some files from my windows 7 partition, then > I was greeted with grub error 24, which means that it couldn't find > the grub config files, so I couldn't boot into anything locally, > luckily one of my classmates had an ubuntu 9.04 iso so he burnt it to > a cd, then I booted into the livecd and I couldn't use any of the > partitions(probably windows' fault lol), so I removed all my > partitions, including the win7 one(it felt so good) and installed > ubuntu, I have yet to configure it to my approval. So now I'm gonna > use ext3 > > Just thought I would share that with my favorite linux user group (: > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > This was emailed with an android phone, because its open source and linux > based > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
