Re: The Small Company's Guide to Hard Drive Failure and Linux

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

Dragos Ruiu wrote:
> On November 18, 2004 06:49 am, Dave Aitel wrote:
>
> > Some good stuff about disk drives.
>
>
> I was cleaning out some old mail messages and ran across dave excellent tome
> about disks, and finally read it :-).
>
> I wanted to add an addenda:
>
> Often failing disks can be rejuvenated with a little trick I called
> the "Muppet Labs Disk Rejuvenator":
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hda bs=512k
> (or whatever drive is appropiate)

What's lovely about Linux is that if you copy *every* file to a new 
partition, it will pretty much work perfectly.

Why bother with mirroring when the HDD is half dead?

I still believe that this should teach us one thing and that's - backup! :)

I should kind of remember that myself..

        Gadi.
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