From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 16:33:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C9116A420 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:33:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6165343D70 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:33:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from flame.pc (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.5/8.13.5/Debian-3) with ESMTP id k1HGWq7m000988 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:32:53 +0200 Received: from flame.pc (flame [127.0.0.1]) by flame.pc (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1HGWe8H013056; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:32:40 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by flame.pc (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k1HGWdUi013055; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:32:39 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:32:39 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Sten Daniel S?rsdal Message-ID: <20060217163239.GA13036@flame.pc> References: <200602150003.k1F03cED001106@barriere241.nike.com> <43F595CE.9000106@wm-access.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43F595CE.9000106@wm-access.no> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.353, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.85, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: Ronny Hippler , chat@freebsd.org, "Hamell, Rick \(ACS\)" Subject: Re: Reason #328 why I love FreeBSD... X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:33:21 -0000 On 2006-02-17 10:22, Sten Daniel S?rsdal wrote: >Hamell, Rick (ACS) wrote: >> And, Quick Format just destroys and rebuilds the FAT on >> Windows. It doesn't reformat every block on the hard drive >> (which use to be a big problem, but according to Microsoft >> isn't any longer.) > > I don't see why every block needs to be reformatted. Any > special reasons? If you have the time to really go through this, writing zeroes to all disk blocks may actually catch some faults of the disk early enough, before you start trusting the specific disk with the data & meta-data of a real filesystem :)