-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/08 13:00, Andrew Henry wrote: > I have a WD Mybook 320GB usb/firewire drive which is about 1 yr old. > Warranty is 2 years I think. It is fully encrypted with dmcrypt & > Luks. I power it up once a day and it stays on for about 12 hours (as a > home server) and the manual recommends *not* turning it on more than > once a day. > > Now it "failed" as in I ssh's to my home server and did ls -l on one of > the folders and several files came up red with question marks for the > owner group and file size. > > I turned the server off and rebooted, and Luks failed to open the drive > and offered to drop me into a recovery terminal mode to fix the problem. > > I didn't know what to do so I rebooted again and it mounted the drive as > expected. It has been "ok" for 2 days now. > > I have run smartctl -Hc /dev/sda and done an fsck -f /dev/sda and they > report no issues. How else can I tell if my drive is failing??
If this is important data, don't risk it! Go buy another external drive (and save some coin by getting a generic enclosure and OEM disk from Newegg). Then after moving the data to the new drive, decide what you want to do. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "The kniiife... the kniiife... The life of the wife is ended by the knife." Stewie Griffin & Eliza Pinchley -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHyawqS9HxQb37XmcRAg+YAKDbkwfvc0IJm1e1dEcfbDtExjhmAgCeJg8O 7t7J4SXiW6buto5Q7ULNOJA= =pgqL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
