<div>2007/9/27, Waldemar Kornewald <<a href="mailto:wkornew@freenet.de">wkornew@freenet.de</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> ... ------ Are there any alternatives? Here are two examples: Use SMART (AFAIK, Vista does that).</blockquote><div> SMART is hardware- and not filesystem dependent. Besides, the implementation of SMART differs wildly from each hard-drive manufacturer. Take care, Erik </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Run fsck read-only (even on mounted partitions) as a low-priority process in the background when the system is *idle* and report to the user only when an error is found, then requiring a reboot and full system check on boot-up. Regards, Waldemar Kornewald -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </blockquote></div>