Thanks for the reply; luckily, the machine is still bootable, and seems to work fine except for the fact that I cannot install or remove any packages.
I'll back up the drive, and dig out the receipt; the drive is only 6 months old and is still under warranty, so shouldn't have started deteriorating quite yet... B. On Tuesday 15 October 2002 00:46, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > > > Is there a way (yet) to mark bad blocks on a reiserfs filesystem?? > > No. Reiser does not handle bad-blocks. Ext2/3 does, but that doesn't > mean anything, because you shouldn't get them in the first place. Modern > HDD remap bad blocks internally, so if you see hard read error's like > your seeing, your best bet is to get a new Hard Drive. > > This has happened to me, and I moved the filesystem to a new HDD, and > re-formatted the dodgy drive with ext3 with a complete bad-block scan > during the format. I now use this space as spare non-critical space. > Lots of rubbish and downloads, and iso images (of cd's I have), and > backups of data etc. I am fully expecting the HDD to start smoking any > day and for me to loose all my data (which doesn't matter anyway). But > so far its been turning for nigh on 6 months now without a blip. > > The important thing though, is *dont trust it*. > > Kind Regards > Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
