The only reason i want to put it in the firewall machine is because all my ide channels are full i all my computers and i'm too poor to by a pci raid ide controller
since the firewall is on 24/7 its a good place for backups. Yea the smoothwall box is in the same building as my main machines but i'm not to worried about it been destroyed by physical damage, i'll get more out of it from insurance :-)
Careful. Modern drives (30GB counts as modern), will automatically remap a sector that is starting to go bad to a known good sector that is found in a normally unreachable area of the hard drive. This all happens transparently to the user. So, when you *do* start to find sectors that are going bad, it usually means that there are a whole bunch of other bad sectors that have already been remapped, and there are no more good special hidden sectors to remap to. In other words, your disk may well be on its last legs anyway.
As for partitioning, making a FS, and mounting, I use fdisk, mkfs, and mount (OK, not very helpful, but it's a pointer in the right direction)
Cheers, Carl.
Thanks for that valuable insight to Modern drives never released they did that.
Can anyone give me some details on how linux drives should be partitioned . Do they work the same as windows partitions with a single primary partition and a logical partition containing multiple partitions or can i put partitions where ever?
Thanks Lance
C. Falconer wrote:
Just check the manufacturer's web page - it may still be under warranty.
Anyway - smoothwall is a firewall distro. I doubt you'll want your backups sent to the firewall because its probably in the same building as the main machine. Or is it in the garage like mine?
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Hi Guys
I'm currently running a Linux based "smooth wall" (firewall) computer and I'm wanting to install an old 30gb drive just so I can use it as a last resort backup storage area.
The first thing is that the drive has some bad sectors that are not all detected. It picks up a few but once you starting writing to it runs into problems. so to get around these bad sectors I want to partition in the "good" areas. I have identified the "good" and "Bad" sections of the drive using a simple read speed test.
From the web forums on smoothwall I require the partitions to be in ext3 format. Am I able to simply format the drive as 4 partitions I guess 1 in the primary and the other 3 in the logical? (I'm using partition magic on the win pc) Am i going about this correctly?
Once I have the drive installed how do I mount the drives into the file system?
cheers Lance Frater
