Hi, It's well known that fail to plan means plan to fail. But when comes to Disk Encryption, I did not see any reasonably planning on disk failure, even though I've googled extensively.
My understanding/impression is that with Full Disk Encryption, even a single bad sector will have a much larger impact than itself and might ruin the whole disk. That's a rather big risk right there, but I haven't found article on how to cope with the problem. To make it more "interesting"/"practical", consider planning for normal home user. They differ from big corporation in that, big corporation will throw away disks once SMART *indicates* the disk is failing, while normal home user will try still to use it until it fails massively, which hardly happens. What I used to do is to mark the bad sectors in inodes as bad and not using them any more. Works great, and I found a similar practice on the net too -- http://www.linuxforum.com/threads/3265-bad-sectors-on-disk, "I have some bad sectors on my hard drive. What I did was to make a partition on the part which has the bad sectors. Then I just do not use that particular partition. It's been two years now. The rest of the hard drive is still working well, 12-16 hours every day, seven days a week." So, what would you plan for normal home users on disk failure for Disk Encryption? How to cope with it? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/klr4vq$3bi$1...@ger.gmane.org
