<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Kurt Wall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwall@kurtwerks.com">kwall@kurtwerks.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:25:57PM -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:<br>
> That sucks. smartd never alerted you to any problems?<br>
<br>
No. However, just for giggles, I stuck the drive back into its bay a<br>
little while ago and, lo, it's back. This gives me *no* confidence in<br>
the disk -- an aging Maxtor DiamondMax -- so I'm going to take another<br>
backup, run badblocks on it, then fdisk and reformat it.<br>
<br>
I've been wanting to move it from ext3 to xfs, so now might be a good<br>
time. I've already gone to the trouble of installing a fresh OS on a<br>
new(er) Seagate and restoring from my last backup, so moving the disk<br>
to secondary duties after a health check and cleaning seems prudent.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Kurt Wall <<a href="mailto:kwall@kurtwerks.com">kwall@kurtwerks.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > There I was, happily computing along and downloading a torrent of the<br>
> > Fedora 11 alpha when the following occurred:<br>
<br>
</div>[apparent disk death]<br>
<br>
Kurt<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
</font></blockquote></div>What is your backup of choice? "cp", "rsync" or do you use something more comprehensive?<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ken Moffat<br><br>