how to verify installation?
Bart Silverstrim
bsilver at chrononomicon.com
Fri Aug 22 12:29:06 UTC 2008
Karl Larsen wrote:
> Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Randall J. Parr wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a Ubuntu hardy system which appears to have developed some bad
>>>> blocks and/or file corruption on an SATA drive.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You have a SATA Hard Drive that is bad.
>>>
>> Why?
>>
>>
> I have never lost a single file or had bad blocks on any of my hard
> drives. Your going to say it could be that the file system is just
> bad. I use ext3 and have never had a bad block ever.
>
> This guy wants to find out how many files are lost. One file is
> enough for me to declare a hard drive bad.
I havne't followed this one but from this message, if you're in the
"playing it safe" school, Karl may have a point BUT it is possible that
something else happened.
I would strongly suggest you check out your drive's SMART status. See if
you can use the SMART tools for linux to see if there's an alarm for the
drive in its' logs.
If you have more than a "couple" bad blocks, you do have a good chance
that you're going to suffer a drive failure. Get another drive, make a
good backup. Once you're losing files and you can't tie it to a
particular event like a power failure, I don't trust drives like that
anymore. If you want to try to continue using it I would get a USB
enclosure and another drive and stick it into that enclosure to use as a
portable drive, install a new drive into the machine, and reformat your
old one and see what it does.
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