Re: Minix crash

[Petr Stehlik <stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz>]

On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

>  >There's no FAT problem on your minix partition, simply because minix 
>  >has no FATs. For repairing you can use fsck.ttp under MiNT (I guess the 
>  >usage is 'fsck.ttp X:' where X is the GEMDOS name of minix partition).

> Precisely why I never will install Minix.  If/when a problem
> happens, you're dead meat; you data is lost for good. Not so
> under FAT, because there is a plethora of recovery utilities
> for standard TOS (ie: DOS) partitions.

You're a bit wrong. Under TOS you have minimal chance to recover data 
correctly, while under MiNT (=Unix) you can just trust fsck, it CAN 
recover your data well.

Petr
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