Author: James Courtier-Dutton Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Laptop Hardrive
On 18 May 2010 23:20, trotter <m.nuttall@???> wrote: >
> In the desktop arena with 3.5" the experience of my last 2 drives would
> bare out your thinking. The western digital blue 640GB has 2 error sectors
> reallocated as soon as i installed it. The 1.5TB Seagate has had 3 sectors
> go bad after a few weeks.
>
I would like it if Linux would at least tell me which files got hit by
the reallocation.
So, I lost 3 sectors, so which files have 512 bytes missing?
I use sha256sum on all my picture files, so that I can detect which
one has gone bad, and then replace it from backup.
