On 20/08/08 05:39, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Andrew Sayers > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think there's an elephant in this room - why are we running fsck at all? >> >> b) If it's to check for dying hardware[1], it can be disabled for all >> but the oldest hard drives[2], and even then is better replaced with a >> badblocks check run while booting continues >> > > Define "oldest," please. I actually think SMART (and a GUI to handle > it, if one doesn't exist) is rather important. Bad Blocks may not > tell you much nowadays, but SMART can tell you when sectors have been > reallocated, hinting at a dying drive. The disk I replaced in January > after SMART flagged it was 18 months old. > > If you recall the google research about hard drive failures you will have remembered that SMART is no indication of impending failure.
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