need FSCK help!
Claude Jones
claude_jones at levitjames.com
Mon Oct 2 19:04:33 UTC 2006
On Mon October 2 2006 1:41 pm, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> /boot does not need to be mounted to boot your system. Is
> /boot in fstab? Can you mount it manually? If its not
> mounted, you can certainly run fsck on it now.
>
I'm at work, now, and the machine is at home - I'll check when I
get back.
> > Anyhow, presuming my guessing above is correct, if I boot
> > into single user mode and run FSCK on sda1, which is ext2,
> > is there any reason that shouldn't work? How well does fsck
> > actually do with bad sectors - does it attempt to read the
> > data off of them and put it somewhere else? Any experience
> > on the efficacy of fsck would be appreciated - I just
> > rebuilt this machine from the bare drive up due to a stupid
> > mistake last weekend - I'm sort of floored this is all
> > happenning.
>
> fsck does not normally relocate data, it only fixes what
> exists, to the best of its ability. Your drive should be
> transparently dealing with bad blocks such that the data
> doesn't get written to them. How old is your disk? Have you
> run smartctl on it recently?
The disk is almost brand new. Actually, I did run smartctl last
night, though I didn't really understand all the output. One
thing that jumped out was that for all three of my disks, there
was a "test passed" message about 1/3 of the way down in the
output. or maybe "disk passed" - I'll do it again when I get
home.
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Claude Jones
Brunswick, Md, USA
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