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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Badblocks on my harddisk
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:11:57
Message-Id: 53D39B04.2090602@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Badblocks on my harddisk by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > Am 26.07.2014 03:49, schrieb meino.cramer@×××.de:
3 >> How severe is the problem?
4 >>
5 > first bad block? Not at all. Your drive's firmware knows about it, so
6 > all read/write access should either generate an error your system can
7 > deal with or will be mapped tranparently to a working reserve block.
8 >
9 > Since it is swap, no fs error occured and no data was lost. So... be happy.
10 >
11 > .
12 >
13
14 I wish I could have been that lucky. ;-)
15
16 Dale
17
18 :-) :-)