0 times. I've used PM once or twice, fips bunches of times, and fdisk more than I can count (obviously not to resize partitions, but to edit/delete partitions) and never had a problem. Not that I ever expect that to always hold true..
* Ross Werner [Mon, 15 Sep 2003 at 14:44 -0600] <quote> > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > > Ross Werner wrote: > > > Now this Mandrake-install-partition-resizer ... does it have a name? Is it > > > available not-as-part-of-Mandrake? > > > > It's really just fips and ntfsresize and parted cobbled into their > > installer. QTParted is a not-part-of-mandrake thing that uses exactly > > the same tools. Knoppix has it so you can use knoppix to do everything > > you might do with Partition Magic. I still prefer PM because I feel > > safer that way. > > People always sound so paranoid about losing data when repartitioning. > I've only repartitioned a couple of drives, always with the Mandrake > installer and I've never used Partition Magic, so I'm not really > experienced on this. So I want to ask kind of a poll question: > > How many of you have messed up a hard drive/lost data by using Partition > Magic? by using other non-PM repartitioning tools? (Please note I'm not > talking about things like a power outage in the middle of a > repartition--actually the program messing up itself.) > > Just curious, > ~ Ross > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list </quote> -- Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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