When was the last time u formatted ur hard drive?

[arnab_das]

Well thats pretty much the question. When did u last format ur hard drive. this is kinda an important question considering the fact that there's a new version release every 6 months.

[Techsnap]

Well thats pretty much the question. When did u last format ur hard drive. this is kinda an important question considering the fact that there's a new version release every 6 months.

There's a new version of my drives every 6 months?

[forrestcupp]

I formatted a partition about a week ago when I installed the latest Ubuntu alongside Windows 7.

[FuturePilot]

A couple years ago.

[lisati]

A week or two back when I reinstalled 6.06 on my old desktop, and a few days ago on my main desktop (currently free from Windows, including recovery partitions. A home-made set of recovery disks is lurking around somewhere "just in case")

[Icehuck]

Yesterday, and about 30 times in the last month. I'm bored with my computer atm.

[Techsnap]

My /dev/sdh drive (the one I try distros on) about 80 times in the past 3 months. Sometimes every half an hour (Icehuk can vouch for that)

[arnab_das]

There's a new version of my drives every 6 months?

version release of the OS thats what i meant. i thought the question was pretty obvious. anyway...

[sxmaxchine]

about 4 hours ago

[Techsnap]

i thought the question was pretty obvious. anyway...

I thought the joke was pretty obvious.

[arnab_das]

wow! looks like i'm the only one who hasnt formatted his hard drive in about 3-4 months. :D

but how can u guys format so often? backing up stuff takes time isnt it?

[Techsnap]

looks like i'm the only one who hasnt formatted his hard drive in about 3-4 months.

Nope, my other computer has had XP installed and not been reformatted since 2005. My Fiancés laptop has not been reformatted since 2006 when we installed Mandriva 2006.

[mamamia88]

yesterday. lately i've been doing it about once a week or so trying different distros

[Icehuck]

wow! looks like i'm the only one who hasnt formatted his hard drive in about 3-4 months. :D

but how can u guys format so often? backing up stuff takes time isnt it?

I have a file server and all my stuff sits on that.

[Techsnap]

but how can u guys format so often? backing up stuff takes time isnt it?

No, my files are on my network.


I have a file server and all my stuff sits on that.

You posted that seconds before me how dare you :P

[Icehuck]

You posted that seconds before me how dare you :P

Not my fault you are slow.

:popcorn::popcorn:

[juancarlospaco]

When EXT4 comes to Ubuntu, i suposse next will be when BTRFS comes to Ubuntu (?)

[Icehuck]

When EXT4 comes to Ubuntu, i suposse next will be when BTRFS comes to Ubuntu (?)

I don't think BTRFS will come to Ubuntu.

[Georgia boy]

I haven't done it either. Setting with dual boot Windows XP now. Waiting for the next LTS in April. Will install over everything. Backup? I send what I want to keep over to my Yahoo then bring back when I need them. Pictures, addresses, stuff like that. Hey, what good is it if you don't use it right?

Tom

[Barrucadu]

I don't think BTRFS will come to Ubuntu.

Why not? ext4 is just a stepping stone on the way to btrfs. Anyway, to answer the question, I haven't done a full hard drive format for two years now (since I switched to Linux). I have, however, reformatted and shuffled around various partitions since then. I last formatted a partition a week or two ago.

[scouser73]

I last formatted when Ext4 came with Ubuntu 9.10

[Icehuck]

Why not? ext4 is just a stepping stone on the way to btrfs.

BTRFS is an Oracle file system that is being developed to give ZFS like features on Linux. Oracle just bought Sun, the company that owns ZFS. It wouldn't make very much sense to continue to develop btrfs when you can now license ZFS anyway you want.

[Zoot7]

I formatted a partition 2 days ago to install Fedora 12.

[iMilkChan]

it was sometime ago. It was only when i was switching Windows OS with Ubuntu. (That was when i had no idea what was Ubuntu.)

[Bölvaður]

2007 was my last whole disk format.

Since then I have only changed the partitions. I got a special data partition which I do not back up.

[dragos240]

Hmm..... about a month ago, to install gentoo. I wanted it to have a drive to itself.

[juancarlospaco]

I don't think BTRFS will come to Ubuntu.

Then when EXT5 come to Ubuntu.

[nerdy_kid]

i format every new ubuntu release. I always hear bout to many issues upgrading, so i do clean installs :)

[lisati]

Why not? ext4 is just a stepping stone on the way to btrfs. Anyway, to answer the question, I haven't done a full hard drive format for two years now (since I switched to Linux). I have, however, reformatted and shuffled around various partitions since then. I last formatted a partition a week or two ago.

Wut? No Karmic?

[Mr. Picklesworth]

Well, I got an external hard drive and formatted that, then I formatted my old portable one to NTFS. It's part of the death ritual :P
(Actually, I just needed something for holding on to the installed files for games in my Windows partition. There isn't enough space on the local hard drive, so instead of uninstalling stuff I move the installed files to the ext. hard drive until I want it again. Probably a bad idea, but it works!)

[ctrlmd]

1 month from installing ubuntu 9.10
6 months from installing windows 7

[RiceMonster]

A few weeks ago. Went from Linux only to dual boot Linux and Windows 7.

[SirBismuth]

Last year when I installed Ultimate Edition 2.4 on my home pc, when I from from an Ubuntu/XP dualboot setup, to only Ubuntu.

B

[nmccrina]

Surprisingly, it has been about 10 days. I told myself I would go an entire semester without changing the operating system. We'll see. :D

[Kdar]

2 month ago when I removed that Windows XP :)

[TheNessus]

2 months ago when vista crashed my system. I just went pure ubuntu

[kk0sse54]

About a week ago when I deleted Arch and finally got rid of linux on my main desktop.

[baddog144]

2 days ago, when I put Ubuntu on here and 30 minutes from now when I upgrade to Kubuntu Karmic. :D

[Grifulkin]

Hmmm about 3 weeks on my laptop. Never formatted the entire disk on XP on my netbook. I made a new partition and installed Arch on it. That was a while back. As for my desktop I just wrote over the XP partition with a Windows 7 partition. And left the Arch install alone. See I use XFS so I don't ever forsee myself needing to update the filesystem therefore no need to reformat. I don't ever see myself not using Arch on my desktop. Maybe on my second hard drive for my laptop might get some other flavor of linux but for the time being Arch is here to stay on here as well.

[fancypiper]

I formatted my / and swap partitions about a week before Ubuntu 9.10 was released. I plan to wait a couple of months after Ubuntu 10.04 is released.

I may not format for the new release if the upgrade goes smoothly.

[Marvin666]

Whole drive wipe was 3 weeks ago, during setup.
Format of one partition was a few days ago.