On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 08:55 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: > Kindly some advice please. With large drives, I'd suggest you format and check for bad blocks, rather than just quick format and hope for the best. Yes, it will take ages, but you're better to found out about a duff drive at the start, rather than some time later when you've got oodles of data on the drive. In recent years, every large drive that I've played with has had problems, despite being treated with kid gloves (they don't get moved while on, they don't get banged about while off). And, if you put un-encrypted confidential on your drive you can't safely return a crap drive to the manufacturer for a warranty replacement. Not to mention that's assuming you find out about any drive faults before the warranty expires. -- [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
