Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux

Re:Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete... by jacquesm on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @10:13AM (#24492874)

If that had happened to you on Windows instead of doing an fsck you might have had to re-install from scratch. And I've had OS/X helpfully suggest to 'initialize a harddrive' with some perfectly good data and a borked boot block on it.

Fixing that took a lot more magic than just an fsck, no matter what the incantations. Once you have trouble at that level any OS will be tricky to get going again because a lot of the underlying assumptions have failed.

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Re:Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete... by baryphonic on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:33PM (#24495010)

> If that had happened to you on Windows instead of doing an fsck you might have had to re-install from scratch.

Ha, yeah, that's true. I've had better luck with MacOS. I did have a total drive failure once, but the hardware had gone bad.

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Re:Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete... by etripe on Thursday September 17, 2020 @06:07AM (#24502821)

Windows has a fsck equivalent called chkdsk, and as far as I recall it's available from command-line only safe mode, or whatever that thing is called from the boot menu.

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