[ILUG] [Fwd: [CLUG] Corel Linux]

[bcrosse at oceanfree.net]

On Fri, 14 January 2000, "Kenn Humborg" wrote:

Hi,
I had a windows partition which was my whole drive. I used a partition manager that i downloaded from the net (Ramsih Partition Manager). I didn't defrag my FAT32 partition before partitioning my drive into a 3.5 FAT32 part, a 2.5 ext2 part and a 64meg Swap part. As such I lost data as Windows had buffered and saved my new files into the end of the hard drive and when I partitioned it cut off the end of the drive, changed it to ext2 and Corel Linux formatted it and installed over it. I lost all my data because of it. 
Windows has a strange way of dealing with information and defragging is the only way to really deal with it if you are going to install a new operating system on it. 
I ama aware that defragmenting won't do anything to your Linux stuff but I didn't have any on there in the first place (the poor state of my graphics card means that Linux is slow and unwielding). 
You see, defragmenting WAS neccesary.
It was just a precaution I forgot to take, and it cost me months worth of work.
I now know better.
Okay, hopes this explains my situation as it was.
See ya later...
Ben

> 
> > One word of advice to you new Linux users: DeFragment. I didn't DeFrag
> > b4
> > installing CL and it cost me a heckuva lot of data and rendered my
> > system
> > pretty much useless.
> 
> What are you talking about?  Defragment what?  Your Windows partitions?
> Won't make any difference to your Linux stuff.  (Unless you mean that
> you'll be splitting a Windows partition with Partition Magic or fips.
> In that case, it's a problem with PM or fips.)
> 
> What partition setup did you have before and after the CL install?
> 
> Kenn