input/output error on disk(?)
charles zeitler
cfzeitler at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 07:03:25 UTC 2009
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Tony Nelson
<tonynelson at 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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