PlayStation®3 General Discussion

[plod2]

I have linux on my ps3 and the message before the update said something about formatting my HDD, do I have to do that? Or is it just to get back the memory on the parition?

[Wrathchild68]

I think if you do the update what will happen is that the partition that you have Linux on won't be formatted, but you will lose that amount of storage (I believe it's around 10GB)

If you wanted it back you would have to reformat your drive, obviously back your game saves up, and then install 3.21

[webrosc]

its just warning you to take any data you want to keep off the linux partition as you won't have access to it after.

[Blasteroids]

By installing FW3.21 you will no longer have access to that linux partition. So, no linux and no data on there! If you value the data, then boot into linux and then save it to a USB device. If you still want Linux, then do not do the update but then you will have PSN problems and possibly offline games and BR problems in the future. Or, finally, install the new FW3.21 and lose everything in linux partition but you can then use PSN.

I hope that is clear.

[moriarty1975]

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Blasteroids wrote:
By installing FW3.21 you will no longer have access to that linux partition. So, no linux and no data on there! If you value the data, then boot into linux and then save it to a USB device. If you still want Linux, then do not do the update but then you will have PSN problems and possibly offline games and BR problems in the future. Or, finally, install the new FW3.21 and lose everything in linux partition but you can then use PSN.

I hope that is clear.

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Or just download the FW and shut up.

[Blasteroids]

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moriarty1975 wrote:

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Blasteroids wrote:
By installing FW3.21 you will no longer have access to that linux partition. So, no linux and no data on there! If you value the data, then boot into linux and then save it to a USB device. If you still want Linux, then do not do the update but then you will have PSN problems and possibly offline games and BR problems in the future. Or, finally, install the new FW3.21 and lose everything in linux partition but you can then use PSN.

I hope that is clear.

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Or just download the FW and shut up.

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Thank you for your troll insight that does not help the OP one bit if they have data on their other partition which could be cricial data for work, college, university and perhaps family photos.

[PatC_PSN]

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Blasteroids wrote:

Thank you for your troll insight that does not help the OP one bit if they have data on their other partition which could be cricial data for work, college, university and perhaps family photos.

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Files that are critical should already be backed up.

[aaronsimo]

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PatC_PSN wrote:

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Blasteroids wrote:

Thank you for your troll insight that does not help the OP one bit if they have data on their other partition which could be cricial data for work, college, university and perhaps family photos.

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Files that are critical should already be backed up.

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^ this, if they are clever enough to install linux, then clever enough to backup important data