Data recovery

[dep]

quoth Shawn Tayler:

| I was hurried and rather short on details.  The drive in question was
| my workstations /usr.  I started getting sense errors and quickly
| copied everything off of it to another drive.  I then replaced the
| bad drive with one of the same type, brand new.  I copied everything
| back but some apps, namely lpr, X, bash were behaving strangely.  I
| did a reinstall of all packages that had been updated through
| swaret(slackware 10 system).  And have cleared the obvious problems.

interesting coincidence. about five weeks ago i also lost a lot of /usr. 
everything was fine until something happened -- i don't remember what 
-- that caused me to think i needed a reboot, whereupon i got an fsck 
message, ran it, a whole big hunk of /usr stuff was unreadable. no 
other indication of anything wrong with the drive, and it has worked 
just fine since.

wonder if there is anything else common to both incidences.
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dep

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists
have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them.
				    -- G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"