[Gllug] hdparm -Y trashed my HDD ...
Richard Jones
rich at annexia.org
Thu Jul 21 09:10:50 UTC 2005
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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