[Gllug] hdparm -Y trashed my HDD ...

[Richard Jones]

Just a word of caution.

Last night I was running a backup of one hard disk (/dev/hda).  Since
the other disk on the same bus (/dev/hdb) was spinning and I wanted to
force it to sleep (so I could go to bed with less of a racket going
on) I did:

  /sbin/hdparm -Y /dev/hdb

Somehow this managed to totally trash /dev/_hda_ into a state where
e2fsck won't even begin to attempt recovery.  And I was in the middle
of a backup ...

Rich.

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