2008/8/12 Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Paul S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've been bitten bad by e2fsck where it's borked my system such that >> I've had to reinstall. Since I don't want to be forced into that again, >> I'm trying to disable it permanently and take my chances on losing a >> file here or there. > > I was under the impression that it's less likely to be "a file here or > there" and much more likely to be "corrupted partition" which would > lead to having to reinstall in many cases, but that fsck'ing was there > to fix problems before they boil all the way up to corrupting the > partition table. I'm not sure what kind of problems a fsck could > cause, but I know what it can fix. It fixed "system can't boot > because Vista shifted Ubuntu's inodes to all sorts of wrongness" a few > times. I do not recommend a Linux/Vista dual boot.
There is something /very/ wrong with Linux if a filesystem state can trigger something to break the MBR. I dare say, in fact, that there is no way a filesystem problem can corrupt the partition table. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
