files and disk sectors

Thu Feb 5 20:03:46 UTC 2009

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 01:54:40PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> did this, and turns out firefox 3.0's places.sqlite was located on the
> bad sector.  deleted it and it regenerated elsewhere on disk -- and lo
> and behold, firefox now runs about 50 times faster than before, and my
> drive isn't constantly freezing up.  life is _so_ much better than it
> was!  thanks,

Excellent.  Good to know I still remember the right tools.

Imagine if you had to guess the file by yourself.

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