On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Tony Nelson tonynelson@georgeanelson.com wrote:
On 09-10-18 17:34:11, charles zeitler wrote:
am now running the new, improved 'cp /dev/zero'....
done. 'current_pending' reduced to 1. trying a long test...
done. still showing the 'read failure', on the same block, with 90% unchecked...
i'll try to work out something to check bad dir files...
Or maybe back up and restore, possibly with the manufacturer's low- level format in between?
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.
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