input/output error on disk(?)

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-10-20 03:03:25, charles zeitler wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Tony Nelson
> <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
 ...
> > 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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