Re: Help! Defragmenting XFS killed my partition?

["George N. White III" <aa056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 07:02:58PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
> > I take that back, it looks like my drive just died, coincidence?
>
> Actually, your drive might have been failing before and increase write
> activity pushed it over the edge (ran out of places to remap sectors
> too).
>
> Either way this is a 'get a new driver' situation.

Not necessarily.  A bad cable, power glitches, or a bulging capacitor in 
the CPU voltage converter could produce disk errors.  The history of the 
drive is often a good indication.

If you don't use it much, a bad drive can sit in a system for years 
without causing problems.  Problems tend to become visible under stress, 
which can certainly include fsr, especially if you haven't been using it
routinely.

Errors in a routine fsr on a system that hasn't crashed or had other 
problems for months or years are often a hint that the disk should have 
been replaced yesterday.

Drives usually fail when new or, if heavily used, a couple days after the 
warranty has expired.

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George N. White III  <aa056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>