[rescue] limited shelf life of hard drives ?

[Peter Corlett]

Michael Parson <mparson at bl.org> wrote:
> [...] Had a few 4 gig drives in a RAID on a news spool (back when you
> could do that in 12 gigs) and they did fine too.

You still can if you're selective about which hierarchies you take:

abuse at mooli:~$ df -h /var/spool/news/
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc5             3.9G  101M  3.4G   3% /var/spool/news

(Usenet II and bofhnet on tradspool, as it so happens.)

-- 
ISIHAC game to complete Christmas cracker jokes:
Humph: Jeremy, what do you get if you eat too many Christmas decorations?
Jeremy: Yule logs.
Humph: The answer is "tinselitis".