On 12/11/11 17:03, alan c wrote:
Yes, sorry, I was too vague, SMART errors. I explained to her at the
time that we were not looking at her Windows, and this was information
from the drive itself. And then later her son connected remotely, to
Windows presumably, looked at the file system, saw nothing untoward,
and rubbished Ubuntu.
I came across this last year. I bought a secondhand drive from Amazon.
Ubuntu immediately condemned it - it had close to the maximum of
relocated sectors. Windows, however, didn't tell me anything!
Obviously I got in touch with Amazon who gave me a full refund and told
me to dump the drive. The seller seems to have disappeared from
Amazon's list! They would have got away with it if I were a Windows
user, as a few folk still seem to be.
I'm told by a friend who was a developer on NTFS that it is an excellent
filesystem, misused by the overarching operating system. It only
fragments because its potential was never properly implemented. I tend
to believe this.
Maybe your friend ought to have been allowed to ignore the SMART test.
The Ubuntu knocker would have had egg on his face in a month or two when
the drive dies catastrophically!
Regards, Barry.
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