Re: Good linux distro for development

From: Mark Hobley (markhobley_at_hotpop.deletethisbit.com)
Date: 11/03/05 

Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 04:08:03 GMT

-DG- <-DG-@nospam.com> wrote:

> Just curious...why would Linux use FAT32 instead of NTFS?

ext2 is actually the traditional linux file system.

It can use the others though.

> In the past I've had some partition failures that Maxtor techs have
> blamed on FAT32. Of course it couldn't have been due to Maxtor
> drives <g>.

I've had a whole load of Maxtor drive failures recently, maybe you can add to
 the list of failed drives on the Wiki.

http://markhobley.yi.org:8000/HDFailures

My drives are ext2, and the third party incidents were from NTFS based
systems, so the problem is not due to FAT32.

 In any event, I don't trust FAT32 as much.

Why not ?

I have used FAT32 since about 1994 (on Windows machines), and I have
had no problems with storage.

On the other hand, I have seen NTFS screw up big time on a couple of machines
(Windows XP), with files becoming unreadable, even by the system administrator. The drives
ended up being reformatted and the data lost.

I prefer FAT32 over NTFS. (Of course, I prefer ext2 over FAT32).

Regards,

Mark. 

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