On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 02:17 +0100, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: > Funny, a few months back, my system HDD (the one with the root > directory and /usr directory) died while the system was in operation. > You know how I noticed? Barely did at first, since all existing > programs which were already in memory just kept running (even the music > kept playing). It was only when I tried to run a new process that I > noticed something was... "odd".
Yeah, that's happened to me before too, and most things are pretty resilient. The problems come when something starts trying to write to the disk, e.g Firefox updating it's history files... Simon.
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