lee wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <raju.mailingli...@gmail.com> writes: > >> When I ran >> >> $sudo e2fsck -c -c -f -v /dev/sdb7 >> >> I am getting a lot of errors such as >> >> Error reading block 18022401 (Attempt to read block from filesystem >> resulted >> in short read) while reading inode and block bitmaps. Ignore error<y>? >> yes Force rewrite<y>? yes >> 3) Is the drive going bad and need to be replaced? > > Corresponding entries in /var/log/syslog about the inability to read > sectors from this device would indicate that there is a hardware > problem. Provided that all connections and the power supply are ok, I > would say the device is broken when there are such errors in syslog. > > In case there aren't errors in syslog, I would look somewhere else > first.
Yes, there are I/O errors in syslog such as Aug 30 08:27:20 kusumanchi kernel: [118453.218041] Buffer I/O error on device sdb7, logical block 5384272 Aug 30 08:27:20 kusumanchi kernel: [118453.219839] Buffer I/O error on device sdb7, logical block 5384273 Aug 30 08:27:20 kusumanchi kernel: [118453.221584] Buffer I/O error on device sdb7, logical block 5384274 Aug 30 08:27:20 kusumanchi kernel: [118453.223310] Buffer I/O error on device sdb7, logical block 5384275 Aug 30 08:27:20 kusumanchi kernel: [118453.224973] Buffer I/O error on device sdb7, logical block 5384276 Aug 30 08:27:20 kusumanchi kernel: [118453.226582] Buffer I/O error on device sdb7, logical block 5384277 Aug 30 08:27:20 kusumanchi kernel: [118453.228158] Buffer I/O error on device sdb7, logical block 5384278 Aug 30 08:27:20 kusumanchi kernel: [118453.229713] Buffer I/O error on device sdb7, logical block 5384279 > > Are you really still using ext2fs? The partitions are ext3. Is there a better command to check ext3 partitions other than ext2fs? > Besides, is the device in question an SSD disk connected via USB? Why > would anyone connect an SSD drive via USB? And do you get the same > errors in syslog with an SSD drive as you get with an SATA or SCSI > drive? SSDs don't really have sectors, do they? No, this is not an SSD drive. It is the ordinary (IDE?) drive with an enclosure connected via USB. I do not have any experience with SSD drives. thanks -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k27gri$7jt$1...@ger.gmane.org
