On 2003-03-03, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > Yesterday my linux hang so that I had to reset it, then fsck failed > and hang and then the partiotion table got broken :-(. It seems that > there is a physical problem with the drive, it's giving "short read > error"s. > Since I now need to by a new one (40GB+), could somebody advice me what disk brands/models won't fail in short time :-).
I'm afraid that's too OT (since linux supports pretty much all drives ;-), so here is a related question: what measures (short of RAID) could I use to reduce the risk of disk errors? I'm starting to be annoyed by them, every time it takes long to recover and then not always all is recovered... Are some filesystems (reiser?) less fragile than others? I'd like to protect the /home are (yes, I backup by Unison, replicating important things on several computers but I wonder what other means exist). -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pure virtual static warp shield (TNG++, All Good Things O-=) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
