On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Andrew Sayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think there's an elephant in this room - why are we running fsck at all? > > b) If it's to check for dying hardware[1], it can be disabled for all > but the oldest hard drives[2], and even then is better replaced with a > badblocks check run while booting continues
Define "oldest," please. I actually think SMART (and a GUI to handle it, if one doesn't exist) is rather important. Bad Blocks may not tell you much nowadays, but SMART can tell you when sectors have been reallocated, hinting at a dying drive. The disk I replaced in January after SMART flagged it was 18 months old. -- Mackenzie Morgan Linux User #432169 ACM Member #3445683 http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com <-my blog of Ubuntu stuff apt-get moo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
