Re: Anti-virus

From: Harry Phillips (harry_at_hkjsfh.com)
Date: 01/29/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:51:29 +1000

Robert Hull wrote:
> In message <r64ne1-off.ln1@news.myaccess.com.au>, Harry Phillips
> <harry@hkjsfh.com> wrote
>
>> Is that why you don't need to run the equiv of "Scandisk"?
>
>
> Most Linux File Systems have an fsck utility that is run automagically
> after x number of mounts - this does the work that Windoze Scandisk was
> intended to do, only more reliably

Hard disks do develop bad sectors over time, they just wear out, so my
question now is:

If I am running a server for months or even years at a time without a
reboot or remount what makes sure the disk isn't corrupting the data it
is saving?

Do we just hope that our vital data isn't saved to a bad sector? Do we
umount/mount our patitions to get to to the magical number? Do we cron a
job to umount our partition, run fsck, then remount it? 

-- 
Regards,
Harry Phillips
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     it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.