[clue-tech] fsck and badblocks

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Thursday 10 February 2005 03:03 pm, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> > Got a pile of drives here to test,  any of you guys have recommendations?
> >  Or should I just try and build a filesystem on them with the badblock
> > testing enabled?
>
> Depends on how old/small they are.  Might be worth just throwing them out
> ;)

Nope!  I have a firewall/router here that uses an 80M drive,  pretty old,  and 
by today's standards pretty small,  too,  and it runs just fine.  I don't 
think that I have any drives that are smaller than that,  unless you cound 
the 5.25" stuff.   I don't throw *anything* out if there's some possible use 
for it.  :-)