Disk Death

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> 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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May I suggest that you use the resurrected drive as a backup only?  I'd be very
worried that it was going to die again, and if you're going to use it
at all, I would
think recovering from a backup failure is easier than losing a day's work.

++ kevin


-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD