From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from s3.cableone.net ([24.116.0.229]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I2Uni-0006vj-00 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:18:59 -0400 Received: from AveratecLaptop (unverified [69.92.97.215]) by S3.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S3) with ESMTP id 113024092 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:18:25 -0700 Message-ID: <007e01c7b67b$04e90080$b100a8c0@AveratecLaptop> From: "Glenn Ervin" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <000b01c7b5b1$595fd500$ab00a8c0@tenstac><20070624141226.GB10052@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> <006701c7b673$4f0d1460$ab00a8c0@tenstac> Subject: Re: A computer issue, how should I deal with this? Best solution? Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:16:27 -0500 Organization: Home MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 1, First 3, in=12, out=0, spam=0 X-External-IP: 69.92.97.215 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: Glenn Ervin , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:18:59 -0000 As far as NTFS being more reliable than FAT32, I would argue on personal experience that I have had more drives go bad that were running NTFS than those running FAT32. I have owned more drives formatted with FAT32, so I should have experienced more FAT32 file system problems, yet I have experienced the opposite. Now this can be due to mechanical problems un-related to the file system, but it is often unclear whether the hard-drive crash was due to an inability for the file system being able to repair itself. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Sutherland" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 10:21 AM Subject: Re: A computer issue, how should I deal with this? Best solution? FAT32 is also much more likely to be corrupted that NFTS if you have a BSOD or something, and I never use it for the windows partition. The reason I suggested FAT32 was because I thought NTFS was still read only on linux but Greg pointed out it's now possible http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ I have had many a FAT32 file corruption over the years but so far not one NTFS. OMG maybe microsoft did something fairly decent. hehe -- Doug _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup