Just to add a data point - although I've been impressed with what PM can do, I am also severly dismayed to discover that it apparently can't handle really large partitions and drives.
My 486/dx4-100 is partitioned
hda1 - 10 M /boot (ext2)
hda2 - 64 M swap
hda3 - 26 G extended
hda5 - 512 M / (ext2)
hda6 - 512 M /tmp (ext2)
hda7 - 512 M /usr (ext2)
hda8 - 23 G /home (ext2)
Neither PM3 nor PM5 recognizes the existence of hda3
Another P-100 has a 110 MB hda and 36 GB hdc
hda1 - 110 MB C:/ (ntfs)
hdc1 - 512 MB D:/ (ntfs) (NT 4.0 server)
PM5 finds errors in hdc1 and refuses to work with the partition.
At 07:53 PM 3/16/2000 , Frank Zamenski commented that...
>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?
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