On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi all, > > I have two 2.5in HD's, one 60Gb with a heap of bad sectors currently > used in external Hd enclosure, and one 100Gb which seems in good > condition, currently in my laptop. > > I'm upgrading my laptop, and I'd like to turn the old one into a myth > frontend or something similar, so I want to put the 60Gb in it. I will > then use the 100Gb in my external enclosure for travelling, backups, > etc. > > The reason the 60Gb has bad sectors (I think) is because I dropped it > (in it's enclosure). This was quite some time ago, and it doesn't seem > to be dying any further, but I haven't done any comparisons on the bad > sector count. I use nearly 100% of the space available, and regularly > compare cksums, so if anything was deteriorating, I would know. > > The question is: should I use it at all (for any use, external HD or > internal with operating system), or is it sufficient to let the fsck > tool mark the bad sectors and just keep using it?
badblocks & mkfs. Maybe. And the 'monitoring tool' would be smartmontools. But I wouldn't trust a harddisk that got damaged in a drop. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
