http://enqack.vox.com/library/posts/tags/random/page/1/ Unofficial Ramblings of an Encapsulated Programmer en Vox Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:07:14 -0500 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss random http://enqack.vox.com/library/post/the-drudgery-of-recovery.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(Enqack) http://enqack.vox.com/library/post/the-drudgery-of-recovery.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://enqack.vox.com/library/post/the-drudgery-of-recovery.html?_c=feed-rss-full Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:07:14 -0500 <p>when having to send it over low-speed USB.&#160; The only space I had available was on my external after both of the partitions on my data drive lost their NTFS status for raw.&#160; Thanks again Windows :) Time to find a good Win32 ext3 driver as the OS partition for Windows will be the only NTFS formated one in my workstation from now on.&#160; At lease it wasn&#39;t the OS partition, this time.&#160; Thankfully the new laptop and the Gentoo install on the workstation numbed what pain could have ensued at the time.&#160; For six months at that too. </p><p>If anything could ever be open sourced by Microsoft let it be NTFS.&#160; Always buggy, always nearly undocumented.&#160;&#160; Its only the filesystem, <del>after all,</del> it&#39;s not I&#39;m asking for the kernel. &lt;cough&gt;&gt;&#160; see previous adjectives.<br /> </p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://enqack.vox.com/library/post/the-drudgery-of-recovery.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00f48ce18cca000200f48ce1b2300002?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> random system administration gripe