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

Ciao
Pascal

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