Re: using a HD with bad sectors

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using a HD with bad sectors
\ Iain Buchanan (5 May 2008)
. \ deface (5 May 2008)
. \ Volker Armin Hemmann (5 May 2008)
. . \ Neil Bothwick (5 May 2008)
. \ Stroller (5 May 2008)
. \ Florian Philipp (5 May 2008)

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Subject:	Re: using a HD with bad sectors
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Neil Bothwick
Date:	5 May 2008

On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:10:54 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

> > The question is: should I use it at all (for any use, external HD or
> > internal with operating system), or is it sufficient to let the fsck
> > tool mark the bad sectors and just keep using it?
>
> badblocks & mkfs.
>
> Maybe.
>
> And the 'monitoring tool' would be smartmontools.
>
> But I wouldn't trust a harddisk that got damaged in a drop.

On the other hand, if it's only being used as a MythTV front end, it
will only contain the OS and software, no data. So a single backup would
suffice (MythTV stores configuration data on the backend) and the only
harm in the drive failing would be that you wouldn't be able to use it
until you bought a new one and restored the backup. It depends on how
long you can last without TV :)

Then again, you could dispense with the hard drive altogether and PXE
boot the laptop.

--
Neil Bothwick

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