On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 13:35, Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was under the impression that some SMART self-tests could also be
> destructive, but I think I must have been mistaken.

I have read this several times, but never encountered one, myself. I
know _old_ disks lost data if you enabled SMART as they would reserve
the first(!) few blocks for SMART storage, but other than that, I
never saw anything in the wild.


Richard



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