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[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Friday, 2008-11-28 at 23:47 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
>
> > Whenever I have suffered corruptions, it has always been down to faulty
> > hardware that would have clobbered every partition.
>
> I, on the other hand, have suffered disk data corruption that affected
> only one or two partitions. Several times. Once I lost entirely an XFS
> partition, unrecoverable: a bug on the XFS repair program impeded data
> recovery (and they took more than a year to solve it). If all my data
> had been on a single partition, I'd have lost all data.
>
> -- Cheers,
>        Carlos E. R.

Above I should have said that the faults clobbered multiple disks on the
same IDE controller.

My critical stuff is on /home and I do backups of that and some other
handy stuff to 4 other systems and a USB attached drive --  /home is the
one that would really cause hurt.
Regards
Sid.
-- 
Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot
Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support
Specialist, Cricket Coach
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

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