Re: Bad blocks and powernowd

2009-01-19 Thread Davide Mancusi
2009/1/16 Johannes Wiedersich : > Davide Mancusi wrote: >> The hard disk of my 4-year-old laptop is starting to fail. I ran >> fsck.ext3 -c on my root partition yesterday and a few blocks were >> marked as damaged. The blocks contained some XFCE4 theme files, so I >> thought that reinstalling the r

Re: Bad blocks and powernowd

2009-01-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Davide Mancusi wrote: > The hard disk of my 4-year-old laptop is starting to fail. I ran > fsck.ext3 -c on my root partition yesterday and a few blocks were > marked as damaged. The blocks contained some XFCE4 theme files, so I > thought that reinstall

Re: Bad blocks

1998-02-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
> Also, I've been told not to run disk checks while the HD is mounted, how >can I load linux sans mounting the HD? does it work if I boot from a >floppy? > > It shouldn't be a problem to run badblocks while the HD is mounted; it > does not write to the drive, just

Re: Bad blocks

1998-02-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 08:12:29PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: > I keep getting {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }'s and I > figure >it's all bad blocks. I ran "fsck /dev/hda2" but it only seems to do a >cursory examination (not taking nearly as long as the scan when I inst

Re: Bad blocks

1998-02-27 Thread Bill Leach
Normally you would boot from a rescue floppy for such maintenance activities and mount your filesystem read only. I haven't had to do this in a long time but it also seems to me that you can boot to single user and remount root as read only. FizzyPop wrote: > > I keep getting {DriveReady

Re: Bad blocks

1998-02-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
I keep getting {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }'s and I figure it's all bad blocks. I ran "fsck /dev/hda2" but it only seems to do a cursory examination (not taking nearly as long as the scan when I installed Linux) and I keep getting the same errors after presumab

Re: bad blocks

1997-10-03 Thread Jaakko . Niemi
>> Hi, >> >> I am running Debian 1.1 and am having problems with "bad blocks." I would >> appreciate any help in solving my problem. >> >> This is the error message: >> Bad Block 1384505 in group 169's inode table. Relocate? Yes. >> WARNING: Severe data loss possible! >> Bad Block 1384521 in grou