20 Oct
2009
20 Oct
'09
8:18 a.m.
On 09-10-20 03:03:25, charles zeitler wrote:
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Tony Nelson tonynelson@georgeanelson.com wrote:
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I wouldn't expect fsck to succeed if there were a bad dir file.
u huh. well , apparently, the block that's causing the 'read failure' isn't being used by a (normal) file... but, i'm planning on an upgrade anyways, that'll be an opportunity to clean things up.
thanks for guiding me in the use of smartctl & /dev/zero. stuff i'll probably need again.
You're welcome, and good luck.
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