[ale] GParted & unallocated space

[Greg Freemyer]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com
> wrote:

> On 09/28/2010 08:16 AM, Tom Freeman wrote:
> > One idiot's opinion here. Most people don't just blow the "restore"
> > partition away for a combination of reasons: lazy (me!! 8-(), lack of
> > needed tech skills, and the personal knowledge that there is a 95%
> > chance of losing the backup copy of the restore partition within two
> months.
> >
> > Of course, I could be really wrong also.
>
> I don't know why anyone would rely on a restore partition.  Worst case,
> you should always have a backup.  The drive could go bad, or become
> irreversibly corrupted.  Then what?
>
>
In the windows world, virus'es/malware are feared far more than hardware
failure.

Sadly, it's a fear based on reality.
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