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. <br><br>-Carl<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 22, 2007 8:54 AM, Bill Broadley <
<a href="mailto:bill@cse.ucdavis.edu">bill@cse.ucdavis.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">BTW, in the past I've taken drives that looked pretty bad, producing tons of
<br>errors, etc. I ran the vendor provided (I forget it was maxtor or seagate<br>I think) utilities (I think they were handily found on the "ultimate boot<br>disk"). I ran the quick read only scan, found tons of errors. I did the
<br>destructive write test and it spent hours finding problems and fixed them.<br><br>I didn't trust it so I ran it again... zero errors. I figured what the hell,<br>installed linux on it and ended up using it for another
1.5 years without a<br>single problem despite fairly heavy use.<br><br>Sure the risks are likely somewhat higher, but it might be worth a try.<br>Some areas of the drive are reserved, so once a bad block is discovered<br>
they can be remapped (up to a certain number).<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________<br>vox-tech mailing list<br><a href="mailto:vox-tech@lists.lugod.org">vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
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