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" <doug@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> 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 at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
