On 06 Jul 1996 04:24:35 -0400 
 mycroft@MIT.EDU (Charles M. Hannum) wrote:

 > I heard a rumour that there was a failing disk on vangogh at one
 > point, and the nightly fsck(8) helped them notice problems earlier.
 > I'm not sure I believe this, or that it's relevant, but `whatever'.

The daily fsck helped a friend of mine find a failing disk, too.

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