HD corruption

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Tue May 4 19:36:31 UTC 2004



On Tue, 4 May 2004, duncan brown wrote:

> 
> BlkPoohba said:
> > This is probably not a Fedora issue but i am using Fedora Core 1 so I
> > thought I would ask.  Sunday I was able to access /mnt/Music/ in its
> > entirety.  Last nite I could access everything except for
> 
> i don't have a pound of solution for you, but i have an ounce of prevention.
> 
> always back up what is not replaceable.
> 
> i recommend purchasing an external USB drive and making a nightly rsync
> from your system to the usb drive.   also, unmount the drive when you're
> not using it to prevent corruption.

(slightly OT but) Do you know of any device that works well with FC1?

Based on the ones I've tried (Iogear ion usb2/firewire enclosuer -
with HDD and Bytecc usb2 enclosure with dvdrom) FC1 USB2 doesn't work
well. Esp with apm suspend/resume.

Satish





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