Disk Death

[Kurt Wall]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:25:57PM -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> That sucks.  smartd never alerted you to any problems?

No. However, just for giggles, I stuck the drive back into its bay a
little while ago and, lo, it's back. This gives me *no* confidence in
the disk -- an aging Maxtor DiamondMax -- so I'm going to take another
backup, run badblocks on it, then fdisk and reformat it. 

I've been wanting to move it from ext3 to xfs, so now might be a good 
time. I've already gone to the trouble of installing a fresh OS on a
new(er) Seagate and restoring from my last backup, so moving the disk
to secondary duties after a health check and cleaning seems prudent.

> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> > There I was, happily computing along and downloading a torrent of the
> > Fedora 11 alpha when the following occurred:

[apparent disk death]

Kurt
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