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    From: Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>
    Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 19:07:23 +0000
> If the drive is currently not in use then it may be simpler to just
> write over the entire drive with a simple
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

When convenient will get another drive and substitute in the machine.
Then the dodgy drive can be written over and I can decide whether to 
scrap it.

Meanwhile I have a nice laptop with Debian 11.1 installed.  If the 
desktop system fails I move the SD card to the laptop and carry on 
work as if nothing happened.  The desktop system can be resurrected 
when convenient.

> I hope none, because you use RAID. 

Being ignorant about RAID I had to read here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

No doubt invaluable for a server with a large quantity of dynamic 
data. For my work the SD card and spare machine seem adequate.  When 
the desktop system crashes I can lose a few hours of editing or an 
emessage. It's tolerable.

Thanks,                                ... P.


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  Re: smartd Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-22 20:00 +0100
    Re: smartd peter@easthope.ca - 2022-01-23 16:50 +0100
    [SOLVED] Re: smartd peter@easthope.ca - 2022-02-04 18:20 +0100
  Re: smartd Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2022-01-22 20:10 +0100
    Re: smartd peter@easthope.ca - 2022-01-23 07:00 +0100
      Re: smartd Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2022-01-23 12:20 +0100
        Re: smartd Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-01-23 16:20 +0100
          Re: smartd <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-23 17:00 +0100
            Re: smartd rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-01-24 18:20 +0100
    Re: smartd peter@easthope.ca - 2022-01-23 18:10 +0100
      Re: smartd Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2022-01-23 19:20 +0100
        Re: smartd Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2022-01-23 19:50 +0100
          Re: smartd Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-01-23 22:20 +0100
        Re: smartd Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-01-25 10:50 +0100
    [SOLVED] Re: smartd peter@easthope.ca - 2022-02-04 19:10 +0100
  Re: smartd Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-01-22 22:50 +0100

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