On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Michael Halcrow wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 02:44:58PM -0600, Ross Werner wrote: > > 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.) > > I've seen scary errors pop up with Partition Magic during resizes at > Install Fests. Something along the lines of, ``Er, somethin' went > wrong, and somethin' mighta got all messed up, but go ahead and reboot > that puppy and see if everythin's all right...'' Happily, everything > seemed to be okay, but errors occurred nonetheless. And errors on > hard disk devices do not make me happy.
I've usually lose about one partition a year using PM. (Note: I do unholy things to my partition table for fun) Nevertheless, I've been very pleased that it's there, because without it I would need to burn everything to CD's every two months (about as long as I can go without deciding to switch distros.) Usually if PM crashes, it's because of some weird thing in the filesystem (NTFS is wacked) that scandisk didn't catch. In all my years of repartitioning, I usually lose about 1 in 10? tries and get to clean my drive. We have come a long way though from the days of FIPS, and QTParted looks really nice. Nathan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
