Mr. Hall,
I know the feeling. Yet for Windows, Pm3, Pm4, and now PM5, have all worked
flawlessly for me, so far. The one time I've used it for Linux (just
recently, an old RH 5.1 hd) partition moving and resizing was when I
suffered my first bad experience with it. However, I also failed to observe
PM's own warning about backing up first, which it prominently displays
before one is about to do a potentially destructive act. As it was an old
Linux hd, one I rarely ever used, I didn't much care anyway, so I threw
caution to the wind and did not back up my data (did you?), and went to work
on that drive. I took a gamble, I lost, it was my own misjudgment, I accept
that, done deal.
Have I learned from being stupid? Well, I like to think so. ;-)
Would I trust it again for Linux? Even backed up, I'd be hesitant,
considering over the years it's been refined for DOS and Windows 3/9x usage.
And I would never trust it with NT, backed up or not, the thought of
re-installing and re-configuring NT over a newly killed ntfs is just to
horrendous to ponder!
Should it be removed from the market? Personally I don't think so, as for
the most part it's a pretty decent product historically (at least for
Windows), but the market place will decide that.
Look at it this way. Even if the product was near flawless (perhaps the
patches will fix it for all OS's), and you were quite confident you did not
need any backup at all, could you predict a sudden power surge or outage?
Frank Z.
----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Reeves Hall" ">reeves@earthling.net>
To: ">ale@ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 8:14 PM
Subject: [ale] Partition Magic crashed
> Partition Magic 5 crashed on my friend's computer while he was trying to
> make room for a 16MB /boot partition (to fix LILO's 1024-cyl problem),
> and his filesystem is now utter toast. Can this be fixed?
>
> I've had Partition Magic lock up during operations at least three times
> on different computers (using versions 4 and 5), though fortunately two
> of the crashes were not fatal to the filesystem... I believe this
> product should be taken off the market until it can do something as
> critical as partition resizing without a 30% mortality rate!!
>
> -Reeves
>
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> J. Reeves Hall, Georgia Tech CS Major
> Linux #7 SMP Thu Feb 17 19:19:48 EST 2000
> 8:08pm up 1 day, 4:13, 5 users, load average: 0.06, 0.02, 0.00
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