[Leaplist] I need help with fixing bad blocks

[Fred Moore]

Chris wrote:
> andrei raevsky wrote:
>> Hi LEAPers,
>> [snipology...]
>> I am currently running my system off a live-CD so I am able to access
>> the web.
>>
>> My questions are:
>>
>> 1) Is there a way to map and isolate the bad blocks and keep on
>> living happily with my hard drive
>>
> The short answer - yes and no, in that order.
>
> The long answer. Yes you can "remap" bad blocks, but you really
> don't want to. All hard drives have bad blocks. The manufacturer
> allocates a little extra space on the hard drive for just that reason.
> Modern drive controllers already remap bad blocks into that spare
> region of the drive, transparently.
>
> So, by the time you are seeing bad blocks, it's an indication that
> your drive is failing so badly that the drive controller has already
> encountered so many bad blocks that it's used up the spare area
> of the drive, and has no choice but to inform the O/S that the
> ship is sinking.
>
> The important thing now is the preservation of your data,
> and how you do that is strictly a matter of your time, money
> and resources. I even know one guy who tarred chunks of
> his data and emailed them to several Yahoo! accounts he
> created until he could afford another drive. Probably not what
> Yahoo! had in mind, but, hey, it worked.
>
> And sooner, when it comes to a failing drive is better, much
> better, than later. Like now.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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Glad you mentioned the network stuff.. I know a person who has 5 gmail
accounts, which now gives 5GB each.. so he has 20 gig of offsite
storage..  He encrypts his data into around 4.5 gb blocks and emails
them to himself.    Or you could install the gmail filesystem

http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html

Fred

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