ext 3 and data drs

[Alex Dean]

On May 7, 2006, at 3:44 PM, betty wrote:

> also, i have s.m.a.r.t. turned off, should i have it 'one'????

When the hard drive on my Powerbook failed, the SMART diagnostics  
warned me before the disk became unusable.  I made sure I had full  
backups, and then replaced the drive.  Pretty darn painless, really.   
I'm not sure if there are any special caveats for SMART and Linux,  
but I was happy to have them turned on in that case.
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