On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 15:50 -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote: > Given that Debian Wheezy is very similar to (X)Ubuntu 12.04 Long Term, > how safe it is now to use Debian? Using any distro is save. It's the chosen software that could be dangerous. However, it's not 100% clear that gvfs damaged your HDD, it _only_ seems to be very likely that gvfs damaged your drive, _but_ perhaps your drive is ok and something else than gvfs does cause a noisy action.