I have been using a run-of-the-mill 8GB SanDisk Cruzer Micro for nightly backups for c. 6 months and I am curious as to wear and tear.
The smartctl utility does not give me much information: "SMART Health Status: OK" + a cryptic "Read defect list: asked for grown list but didn't get it" - I don't get it either.. I thought I'd run an e2fsck with the -c "badblocks" option.. took two hours and returned zero errors. But come to think of it, I'm not sure whether running e2fsck makes any sense in the first place.. in other words, does some smart technology live on the USB stick way below filesystems that might "mask" such goings-on anyway? Just curious how fast my stick is deteriorating ... how soon will I have to consider budgeting another.. Thanks, CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
