Re: was getting disk failure errors, repaired the sectors, now what?
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!
--
Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding
newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just
filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without
ever having been read.
Reply to: