[vox-tech] Corrupted root files

[Carl Boettiger]

I'm using ext3 which i figured should be pretty safe.  I ran smartctl,
didn't seem to find any errors on either my / or /home partition.

-Carl

On Dec 22, 2007 8:54 AM, Bill Broadley <bill at cse.ucdavis.edu> wrote:

> BTW, in the past I've taken drives that looked pretty bad, producing tons
> of
> errors, etc.  I ran the vendor provided (I forget it was maxtor or seagate
> I think) utilities (I think they were handily found on the "ultimate boot
> disk").  I ran the quick read only scan, found tons of errors.  I did the
> destructive write test and it spent hours finding problems and fixed them.
>
> I didn't trust it so I ran it again... zero errors.  I figured what the
> hell,
> installed linux on it and ended up using it for another 1.5 years without
> a
> single problem despite fairly heavy use.
>
> Sure the risks are likely somewhat higher, but it might be worth a try.
> Some areas of the drive are reserved, so once a bad block is discovered
> they can be remapped (up to a certain number).
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