I hope this isn't too off-topic here, but today I had a particularly irritating power outage. All the machines were left in strange conditions, but it hit the e-smith box we use for all the mail hardest. Usually e-smith just pops back up, chugs through fsck and everything is as it was. This time, however, it could not complete the fsck and I had to fumble my way through an interactive one to get it to come up at all. The box has a fairly recent 45G IBM 7200RPM HD in it, but it makes a retry sound like an old floppy drive and gives the message Error reading block 10092564 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) Ignore Error <y> ? For three blocks. Does anyone know of a way to somehow mark these blocks as bad, or will it croak like this every time it fscks now? I'm also worried about the effect of inadvertently writing data to these bad areas. I had to say "yes" to "Ignore Error", aginst my better judgement, because saying "no" just aborted the fsck. All help and suggestions welcome. I just hope it doesn't mean a new HD. Thanks. -- Frank Carver [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.efsol.net/
