Just a short one: At Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:56:24 +0000, Michael Whapples wrote: > > Thanks, some of that would be useful (I found more to do with recovering > data than checking that the hardware is working fine). Thinking about > it, if the hardware isn't working properly I guess I would be unable to > mount the NTFS partition (is this right). >
Not necessarily. Mounting may work but changing a directory or reading a file may fail or take ages while the kernel log fills with read error messages. HTH -- David -- OpenPGP... 0x316F4BE4670716FD Jabber.... dmj...@jabber.org Email..... maus.da...@gmail.com ICQ....... 241051416 _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - Grml@mur.at http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/
