On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 20:54 -0500, Gabriel Ramirez wrote: > so a disk with bad sectors can work normally, but if the disk runs out > from spare sectors well at that moment the disk is bad Are "spare sectors" special areas of the drive, or merely any space that you haven't saved data to? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines