From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 15 02:19:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A637816A420 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:19:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from samuraiblog@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A7743D46 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:19:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from samuraiblog@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so17047wra for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:19:38 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Wk21HL/2tF7gNqUMPwlR1P3ouQ8HbON5v3wSyEb08W0gnHkVmkVc5rCAa3JB5kgArHaP0UUmWWUgvIosH3q6Oe6bwIYeeJ6HNtoBoXfJYbDKXXnm9a4/Vp0R4hewyhgodzEV+JMBqxwLizyawgQ1hou4l2uDjBrPIPd/3pmJOXo= Received: by 10.64.242.17 with SMTP id p17mr2206780qbh; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:19:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.199.14 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:19:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <219837f70602141819l7a95d818h55235eb6843352ae@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:19:38 -0800 From: Sam Sutch To: "Hamell, Rick (ACS)" In-Reply-To: <200602150003.k1F03cED001106@barriere241.nike.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <43F26E3F.8050201@yahoo.com> <200602150003.k1F03cED001106@barriere241.nike.com> Cc: Ronny Hippler , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reason #328 why I love FreeBSD... X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:19:39 -0000 No, and I'm not aware why anyone would use FAT anymore in the first place. NTFS negates the problems one might have with FAT tables and a quick format is suffecient for any Windows install. Also, NTFS can install on a fresh drive without any partition tables. Sam On 2/14/06, Hamell, Rick (ACS) wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > >>> I dont get it. > >>> A "quick format" in Windows XP will suffice for virtually anyone. It > >>> takes less than a minute. Also, less waiting time means less coffee. > >>> Makes no sense to me. > > > > AFAIK you can't quick format a bare drive. only one that was previously > > formatted. > > - -- > > And, Quick Format just destroys and rebuilds the FAT on Windows. It doesn= 't > reformat every block on the hard drive (which use to be a big problem, bu= t > according to Microsoft isn't any longer.) > > Rick > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >