[ubuntu-uk] Bug #1 and onwards....

[Gareth France]

Nothing surprises me really. I just wish we could shake off the 'industry
standards. It's annoying being bound to NTFS, .doc files etc.

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Grant Sewell <dcglug at thymox.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:37:31 +0000
> Gareth France wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:31 PM, alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Yesterday I spent time with someone who was interested in using
> > > Ubuntu. The Live CD ran well in her laptop. However, the live
> > > session disc utility showed some errors, numerically apparently
> > > quite a lot. I discussed her considering a new drive, but anyway
> > > helped her back up some files.....
> > >
> > > She later had contact with her son who connected remotely and
> > >
> > > 'could not find any significant problems and made the comment "your
> > > HDD is formatted as NTFS the drivers in UBUNTU have only been
> > > around a short time. Basically a Microsoft file format. that has
> > > been reverse engineered". So he feels I should just do a full
> > > back-up at the moment and he will keep checking the hard drive. So
> > > that is what I shall do'
> > >
> > > I do not know whether to laugh or cry.
> > >
> > > (originally I attempted to post and share this on my Google+  but
> > > failed to share with Ubuntu UK Team)
> > Intriguing. So why would Ubuntu spot faults on a drive that Windows
> > can't? I mean you can understand that guy's perspective, you would
> > expect Microsoft of all people to be the best at working with NTFS.
>
> You would expect so, but frequently you would be surprised.
>
> If I remember correctly, the first "edition" of NTFS was not supposed
> to suffer from fragmentation, according to Microsoft, so they didn't
> write a defraging tool.
>
> Grant.
>
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