jtd wrote: > On Monday 01 Sep 2008 23:16, Rony wrote: > > >> I have added a spare disk and will store all ISOs there. Otherwise >> my system is 'touchwood' running smoothly. >> > > Most of the time a bad sector is an indicator of doomsday. Better > backup all important stuff. > I have a SATA disk whose var partition has developed bad sectors. I > have rejigged fstab to point to a new var and things are fine. But I > must move all the important stuff to avoid grief. > > The data was backed up up the last time itself, when Arun suspected the disk. I think I should move the email store to the new drive.
Is there any software that will do a surface scan and mark bad sectors as unusable? -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
