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Free trial bug on MC 21
AlexS:
Yup software and OS compatibility.
Cheers...
mwillems:
--- Quote from: bob on August 17, 2015, 04:42:02 pm ---Ok. It doesn't do that when it's running normally on my test machine.
I'm using the ext4 filesystem.
It's possible that the settings file is open when you kill MC but I wouldn't expect that to mess with the settings file.
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My case was with an ext4 filesystem, but it was on a Raspberry Pi so it's kind of the wild west. I probably wouldn't have reported it if someone else hadn't experienced the same thing
leezer3:
It doesn't lose the license here after a force kill using XFS on Jessie (Upgraded last night, promptly spent today fixing the mess it made of GRUB and the VNC server :( )
Journaling filesystems:
ext3, at least by default is journaling. Disabling the journal will essentially make it an Ext2 filesystem, running under the Ext3 driver.
If you've turned journaling off specifically using tune2fs, then frankly I'd call that 100% unsupported by any distribution, let alone MC.
The only remotely good reason I can even think of off the top of my head for turning off journalling is for ultra-paranoid file encryption purposes.
There is *no* OS compatibility issue that I'm aware of. If you've turned it off because you wish to use Ext2FSD on Windows, don't- This works perfectly well with the journal turned on (Ext3 is backwards mount compatible with Ext2, and for that matter Ext4 is also compatible if you don't play with the tune2fs options)
Whilst turning off journaling may increase the filesystem speed access/ write speeds very marginally on a heavily disk dependant system, if that was your aim, it's frankly a plain stupid idea- Invest in a decent SSD / RAID setup instead.
Again, I can't think of *any* software that will react differently on a journaled filesystem. Please enlighten me :)
-Leezer-
AlexS:
It was formatted with ext3. I haven't change the defaults that have come with Ubuntu. I haven't got a clue about journaled filesystems and Linux not sure where this is coming from....
So if you say ext3 is by default journaling then it is journaling. Haven't done any hacks like you mention...
Ubuntu Studio was a fresh install. All trusty.
Thanks.
leezer3:
If you're on the Ubuntu Studio defaults, then you're actually using an Ext4 filesystem, not that it really matters :)
Looking into your linked post, I suspect you probably completely corrupted the settings attempting to import the Windows library, and hence MC dumped the corrupt file & created a new one on restart.
IMHO the force kill was irrelevant to what you saw.
Your post above sounded very much like you'd turned journaling off deliberately. This isn't something that I (or for that matter any reputable Linux forum) would ever advise doing-
Whilst you are able to tinker with practically anything you please, if you encounter esoteric bugs after doing so and are unable to debug yourself, support will always be limited at best.
Whilst I wouldn't quite put disabling journaling with the classic sticky on the (mis)use of rm -rf , in my books it comes rather close as plain stupid advice to be giving out/ following :)
-Leezer-
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