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Recovering from disk failures

As you might know, disk drives, specially in high usage areas like hosting enviroments, have a tendency of crashing from time to time. Most crashes you will encounter are related to bad blocks on your hard drive which in some cases will stop your operating system from booting, leaving your server at a stop. There are several utilities which can help you detect and fix the bad blocks at a software level, like the FSCK(file system check) available for Linux, or CHKDSK and SCANDISK for Windo...
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