Hi.
I have a Samsung HD080HJ/P (80 Gb) drive that I failed ti install LM 18.1 Cinnamon x64 onto because the drive obviously have some bad sectors. I have earlier used the drive as scrap drive in Windows (location of %tmp%) without any problems. Therefore I assume the drive is partially usable and may have some time left before it fails completely.
Because of this (I may be vrong, but I have other drives laying around and can easilly replace it when it fails completely) I want to do this to the drive:
- about 10 Gb with no partitions at all (assuming greater chance that bad sectors is within the first part of disk).
- 10 Gb for /tmp
- Rest of space for /var
I won't have swap space on this drive.
So here is my questions:
Q1: Which file system would be the best chioce. When I set up Linux, I like to make separate partitions for /tmp and /var and format with ext2 - I beleive that would generate slightly less write activity to the disk compared to ext4.
But I would like to use a file system that is best equiped to handle cases where the drive does not save files propriately, maybe because of new bad sectors. I don't even know if I should dare to ask about this now when I told I would like to use a bad drive
Q2: In case of total failure of the disk, I'll obviously lost /var and /tmp partitions and I may expect that Linux Mint would not work without. I do already have a second drive to replace.
What steps do I need to take in order to bring LM up againg with a new drive that contains /var and /tmp ?
Thanks
Use partial bad disk for /var /tmp purpose
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Use partial bad disk for /var /tmp purpose
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Re: Use partial bad disk for /var /tmp purpose
Don't. It could lead to irreparable system damage (e.g. corrupted update packages and such).
Yank the rotten bugger out of your system and dump it. Best thing to do.
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