I'm using ext3 which i figured should be pretty safe. I ran smartctl, didn't seem to find any errors on either my / or /home partition.
-Carl On Dec 22, 2007 8:54 AM, Bill Broadley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, in the past I've taken drives that looked pretty bad, producing tons > of > errors, etc. I ran the vendor provided (I forget it was maxtor or seagate > I think) utilities (I think they were handily found on the "ultimate boot > disk"). I ran the quick read only scan, found tons of errors. I did the > destructive write test and it spent hours finding problems and fixed them. > > I didn't trust it so I ran it again... zero errors. I figured what the > hell, > installed linux on it and ended up using it for another 1.5 years without > a > single problem despite fairly heavy use. > > Sure the risks are likely somewhat higher, but it might be worth a try. > Some areas of the drive are reserved, so once a bad block is discovered > they can be remapped (up to a certain number). > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech >
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