--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "dbneeley" <dbneeley@...> wrote:
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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "grantrocket2" <mars_rover@> wrote:
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> > Hey, um i know it should go without saying but.... backup first. I fried my data when I did that, ended up reinstalling.
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> In most cases I've seen, attempts to resize an existing XP partition were made without first defragmenting the disk. That is a huge "no-no"--but of course it is always best also to do a backup of important data before doing partition resizing.
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> But then, you should have regular backups of important data anyway, right?
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> David
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I heard that NTFS did not need to be defragmented like vfat did, and the only reason Microsoft still ships defrag is because people ask for it, not because you actually need it.
I've tried a variety of backup schemes over the years but never anything comprehensive or very organized. Mostly my backup plan has been to copy files willy nilly from one PC to another.
So far it has been working for me pretty good. But then again I have not had many hard disks fail on me and I do run Linux. I really have to setup nfs on my old box, ftp isn't quite cutting it.
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