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gnome-disk-utility package

  1. Bug #412152
  2. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 412152

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gpk (gpk-kochanski) wrote : Re: [Bug 412152] Re: gnome-disk-utility nags me too much that my disk is failing

Are you the MIT Halbert from '81?
If so, hello!

Dan Halbert wrote:
> A more thorough discussion of this issue is in yet another Fedora bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498115.
>
> When I installed karmic, I too was falsely alarmed by palimpsest's
> warning about a single reallocated bad sector in a disk I've been using
> for years. I ran the manufacturer's test, which said there was no
> problem.
>
> I believe palimpsests's author, as quoted in #7, is not as well as
> informed as he could be about the non-zero number of failures one
> typically sees in disks these days.
>
> ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #498115
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498115
>