files and disk sectors

[William Muriithi]

Sorensen,

2009/2/5 Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>

> 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.
>

Got to say that is very impressive knowledge you displayed here. I was like,
what the heck, that is way to neat.  Wonder sharing how you came to
accumulate this  particular skill?  I plan to play around with debugfs and
see what I can master.

Regards,

William

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