On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 00:56, Gary Greene wrote:
> 
> Not likely. This actually looks a whole lot like possible hardware damage. If 
> I was him, I'd use a drive scanner to check disk surface integrity. Doing a 
> fsck on the disk won't catch it all the time in a hardware case.

Ugh. I think I'll try to run badblocks on it tonight after I have a
chance to backup my $HOME. Thanks for the suggestion.

-- 

Steve Fox
IBM Linux Technology Center
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