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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org