Re: [Nolug] The worst fix ever

On Tue January 5 2010 11:48 pm, Friedrich Gurtler wrote:
> Wait wait... did Ron just top post?

fgurtler++

>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > Yeah, with all the "major rewrite" that was Vista, they really should
> > have made sure that chkdsk actually checked disks...
> >
> > On 2010-01-05 17:38, Chris Jones wrote:
> >> Lol yes, I've worked in those environments. I don't care though.
> >> Chkdsk is how old now? Fix the damn thing already! LOL
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> >> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:52:00 To: <nolug@nolug.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [Nolug] The worst fix ever
> >>
> >>
> >> You don't know very much about corporate change control, prioritization,
> >> QA, etc, etc, etc.
> >>
> >> On 2010-01-05 16:05, Techmaster wrote:
> >>> Nope, it affects Windows XP as well. The sad part is it probably took
> >>> longer to make that web page with that answer on it, than it would
> >>> have taken to just patch the source of chkdsk and recompile it.
> >>>
> >>> I just ran into this exact issue, which is how I found MS's proposed
> >>> solution. I instead booted up an Ubuntu Live CD and deleted the files
> >>> on the first try. :) Kind of sad that Linux now does NTFS better
> >>> than Windows does it. For the longest time, NTFS was read-only in
> >>> Linux.
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> >>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> On 2010-01-05 15:24, Techmaster wrote:
> >>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246026
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Does anybody else see the problem with this? Some unimportant files
> >>>>> get corrupted, but the fix is to backup, format, and restore
> >>>>> everything but the corrupted files? LOL
> >>>>
> >>>> To me, that seems a perfectly rational solution. After all, what
> >>>> should a
> >>>> Linux user do if the inode table gets corrupted.
> >>>>
> >>>> The *real* stupidity is:
> >>>> NTFS supports case-sensitive (POSIX) file names, but Chkdsk does
> >>>> not check file names in case-sensitive mode.
> >>>>
> >>>> Since this only affects versions up to Win2k, they apparently fixed
> >>>> chkdsk
> >>>> for XP.
> >
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