Re: was getting disk failure errors, repaired the sectors, now what?

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

On 01/07/10 03:34 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 
> Don't you have some method of checking the integrity of you backups?
> (http://www.taobackup.com/integrity.html)
> 
> It is considered that a modern drive developing bad sectors visible to 
> the system[1] is not to be trusted.
> 
> [1] drives are remapping bad sectors internally, until they run out of 
> spare sectors.
> 
> 
> This looks like filesystem corruption, did you fsck the drive/partition?
> 

All good points. I haven't tried these ... which I will do now.

Thanks!




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