Re: [opensuse] Hard Disk Failing

2007-11-06 Thread Tom Peters
At 08:53 PM 11/6/2007 -0600, Billie Walsh wrote: Fernando Costa wrote: > Hi all, > > Some days ago I began to receive the following message: "Your hard disk > drive is failing! S.M.A.R.T. message: Device: /dev/sda, 1 currently > unreadable (pending) sector" I don't know what it refers to but I ha

Re: [opensuse] Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population [ Was: About Backing Up]

2007-02-20 Thread Tom Peters
At 04:53 PM 2/20/2007 -0500, you wrote: On 2/20/07, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stevens wrote: > Auto manufacturers try to predict how their interiors and their paints will > last, too, but until both are subjected to the Texas sun they are only Sure. As anyone who's ever had a

[opensuse] find error in SuSE 9.2- dot changed during execution

2007-01-27 Thread Tom Peters
Ok, from the REALLY BASIC QUESTION department, why does find fail with "find . changed during execution of find" when I search from the root? This is a Suse 9.2 installation on a PIII with 640mb of RAM. Really. It boots from a small IDE drive where most of Linux is but there's also two differen