On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 09:38:17AM -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > For a few days, access to a certain file (/home/bjb/Mail/family) > was slow at a certain point in the file. Now, access to that file > gives the following error: > > scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id1, lun0, CDB: Request Sense 00 00 00 10 00 > Current error sd08:01: sense key Medium Error > Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error > scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 109150 > > > I wonder what I can do to "mark that sector as bad" and not use it. > > I tried fsck /home, but fsck returns no errors. > > > My system is a Sparc Station 20, with a pair of 2 Gig hard disks. > The /home filesystem shares a whole hard disk with a swap partition. > The disks are SEAGATE model ST32430W SUN 2.1G disks, Rev 0666, > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 according to dmesg. > > esp0: target 1[period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II] > SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4197405 (2049MB) [2.0 GB] > esp0: target 3[period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II] > SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4197405 (2049MB) [2.0 GB] > > Also, the partition check does not report anything unusual.
I suppose I have to go back to the repartitioning software and re-format that filesystem. > Oh, and what's the best way to back up that filesystem, all except > for the one file that gives errors? tar --exclude file -cvf my.stuff.tar . I should have looked at the man page for tar before asking that one. Oops. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! --
