On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 09:22:37AM -0700, Scott J. Geertgens wrote: > > I recently posted a message about GCC not being able to compile due to > dma_intr and/or read_intr errors. After receiving a response here and > scouring the net I've realized that the problem lies on the drive itself > (bad blocks or similar). > My question is how do I go about fixing the problem? Will a forced fsck > (fsck.ext2 -f /dev/hdb3) be sufficient?
No, that will only check the integrity of the filesystem structure. Use badblocks to check the readability of your partition. # /sbin/badblocks -b 1024 /dev/hdb3 <partition-size-in-Kb> -Michele
