was new install 8.04 fail on boot

[Derek Broughton]

nepal wrote:

> On Friday 21 Nov 2008, nepal google wrote:
>> On Friday 21 Nov 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> > Your loss if the filesystem is seriously damaged.
>>
>> Do you mind explaining why?
> 
> I understand now from Eberhard's reply.
> 
> I had nothing really bad to lose from that drive, I had only
> just swapped over to it and using 8.04 a couple of days ago
> and I did think it was a balance between convenience and
> data loss. But thanks for the heads up.

I would probably have taken the chance in that case too :-)
-- 
derek