thankfully, i never had problems with hardware: it serves me well.

But still didn't prevented from losing precious data: the humans who break into my apartment and stole the machine,
with all data it has :(

On 18 October 2013 11:18, Goubier Thierry <thierry.goubier@cea.fr> wrote:

I remember trying to recover mail folders by reading the blocks on disk one by one with a binary editor...

Ended learning far too much about the internal layout of an ext2 filesystem.

But dead harddrive is nice in one way: you don't loose time trying to recover stuff, you know it's dead :(

Thierry

Le 17/10/2013 23:10, St��phane Ducasse a ��crit :

so backup your machine�� because mine was still working at 8h this morning and 8h40 dropped dead

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