hard disk failure

Kevin Fries kevin at fries-biro.com
Fri Feb 17 11:10:55 MST 2012


is this a 30GB disk?

if so... This looks perfect.  Otherwise, I hope your block size was
something other than the default 512 bytes.

Kevin

On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 11:07 -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:17 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com
> <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>         Another (NON destructive) check you may to do:
>         as root:
>         dd if=/dev/{your partition} of=/dev/null
>         Your HD will (most likely) be OK if it finishes without other
>         error than "read beyond EOF" (or something like that)
>         ET 
> 
> It finished with no error. The return was:
> 
>      55285760+0 records in
>      55285760+0 records out
>  
> Is that a good sign?
> -- 
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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