Pascal Schmidt wrote in a message to CHARLES ANGELICH:

 PS> Hi CHARLES! :-)

 CA> You can only trash the file system that is in-use when the glitch
 CA> happens.  I'm assuming that you weren't using Linux at that time.

 PS> Note that journalling filesystems are not hurt by power glitches
 PS> unless the hard drive itself craps out. This applies to Windows'
 PS> NTFS and to a lot of commonly used Linux filesystems as well (ext3,
 PS> reiserfs, JFS, XFS).

NTFS is a journaling system?  I didn't know that...

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