Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:01:14 -0800 (PST) | From | Alan Olsen <> | Subject | Re: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release) |
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Trever Adams wrote: > > >I had a similar experience. All I can say is windows 98 > >and ME seem to have it out for Linux drives running late > >2.3.x and 2.4.0 test and release. I had windows completely > >fry my Linux drive and I lost everything. I had some old > >backups and was able to restore at least the majority of > >older stuff. > > > >Sorry and good luck. > > I don't see how Windows 9x can be at fault in any way shape or > form, if you can boot between 2.2.x kernel and 9x no problem, but > lose your disk if you boot Win98 and then 2.3.x/2.4.x and lose > everything. Windows does not touch your Linux fs's, so if there > is a problem, it most likely is a kernel bug of some kind that > doesn't initialize something properly.
I am seeing weird reporting of size problems on a VFAT partition.
It has not corrupted anything, but a "df" shows the size to be a large negative number. (It worked when the drive had about 22 gigs full on the 30 gig partition, but went wonky when I deleted everything on that partition.)
Drive is a Western Digital 307AA 30.7 gb drive.
Kernel is 2.4.0 on a P-III 650.
Partition is type "c" (Win95 FAT32 (LBA)). Partition starts at 1 and ends on 3739. 30033486 blocks.
/dev/hdb1 30018800 -295147905179350204416 32652912 9% /export1
df version is from fileutils-4.0. (Mandrake package fileutils-4.0-13mdk, which is current.)
du reports the correct amount of space used. I can read the drive, but the drive size reported is not correct. Not certain if this is a problem in 2.4.0, df, or something else. Have never seen this problem before. (And I mount vfat partitions frequently.)
I have not seen any file corruption on this or the other Linux partition that stays in the drive the few and far between times I run Win 98. (Carmageddon 3 does not run under Linux yet...)
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