Ubuntu has corrupted my file !

Mario Vukelic mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Tue Nov 14 13:04:40 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 22:57 +1100, James Gray wrote:
> AFAIK only non-journalling file systems impose this mandatory fsck  
> after a certain number of reboots etc. 

Not true, ext3 does this (and it is very annoying)

>  Why not use (at least) ext3  
> or reiserfs/jfs/xfs???

He probably uses ext3 since this is the default in Ubuntu. And by the
way, reiserfs is _known_ to have corrupted files


> Stop using an ancient file system - backup your data (completely),  
> and reformat with filesystem that supports journalling. 

See above





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