On Tuesday 24 June 2008 22:55:00 Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:40:21PM +0100, Tim wrote:
> > Ok the kernel log(1) is full of errors, not that I can make much out of
> > it. Is it worth running fsck on the disk to see if it comes up with any
> > errors??
>
> Possibly, but make sure you have backups of the data on some other
> device first. There's a good chance that you'll end up screwing up the
> filesystem even more by running fsck.
>
> It's also quite likely that the device needs replacement. You could
> also try running badblocks on the device:
>
> # umount /dev/sdc1
> # badblocks -w /dev/sdc
>
> WARNING! This will destroy all of the data on the disk, but it will
> tell you how many bad blocks you have on the disk. If it's non-zero,
> you should ditch the device, as it's accumulated enough physically
> damaged blocks that it can't replace them all. From this point
> onwards, damaged blocks *will* cause data loss, so it's really not
> worth your while using the device.
>
> > (1) http://www.windfreaks.co.uk/myimages/kern.log
>
> Hugo.
Well I started Hugo command at about 7-00pm last night, its is still running
now (4-24am, yes its early), does it normally takes this long or do we assume
the disk is dead (its a 500gb disk)??
Tim
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