Re: HFS+ (MacOS) in contrast to EXT2 (Linux-i386)
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:47:25PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:02:03PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
> > While reading the thread about "HFS Plus on Linux ?" I had a experience I want
> > to share with you.
> >
> > Within a an hour I had to hard reset both of my computers, first my Linux-i386
> > due to a complete lockup of the system while using el3diag, second my powermac
> > due to an not responding USB-keyboard/-mouse. Now while the Mac restarted
> > without any fuse I had to fix the ext2-fs manually for about 15min. Luckally it
> > seems I haven't lost anything on both system.
>
> both filesystems MUST be fscked after such a crash, macos simply isn't
> bothering.
>
> > I leave it up to you to draw any conclusion.
>
> the conclusion is macos is just stuffing its head in the sand.
Exactly.
Run Norton Utilities or the brain dead utility that comes with MacOS on it,
and it will find and hopefully repair the errors.
If you don't do this, you are asking for trouble on HFS, HFS+, EXT2,
FAT, FAT32, and to some extent NTFS, EXT3, XFS, XFS, JFS.
Mike
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