On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 19:15 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > I don't believe this thread goes on for that long. You buy a toaster > with 1y warranty and after 2 months half of it stops working. Is anyone > stupid enough to ask whether to return it?!?? > > Volker > If you go through the possible reasons for the superblock to get corrupted, then the causes are not limited to a hard disk failure. Apart from potential hardware issues elsewhere, there's configuration errors - overlapping partitions, human error - dd of=/dev/sda just for a couple of examples.
Sure, it's almost certainly a disk failure, but there are other possible causes. Also, given the uphill fight you often get when not speaking Microsoft to suppliers, I think this thread is perfectly justified. As it happens, Dove are a pretty level headed supplier, and I've never had problems returning failures. Steve
