On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 03:23:30PM +0000, Chris Dennis wrote: > Hello folks > > I've come across a problem on a friend's computer. > > The computer is fairly old (see below), running Ubuntu 10.10, with / > on a 40GB IDE drive, and /home on a 120GB Maxtor SATA drive. > > It's /home that's the problem. It's on a single partition > /dev/sda1, formatted as ext4. I've run the Maxtor diagnostics on > the drive, and no problems were reported. > > Ubuntu wants to check the filing system on every boot. Running > 'fsck -f' manually (from Knoppix 6.2) gives: > > Block bitmap differences: <some number ranges, different each time> > > Sometimes it also offers to fix: > > Free blocks count wrong for group #<numbers that change each time> > > I choose to fix those problems, but they're still there next time. > > I've also run 'fsck -fc /dev/sda1' -- it didn't report any bad > blocks, and the other were still there.
This smacks to me of a disk that's constantly remapping duff sectors into spares, and finding more duff sectors. Replace the hardware ASAP. [...] > > ran fsck again, and the errors have returned! > > Why would copying data into a filing system cause errors like that? Bad hardware. Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- Gomez, darling, don't torture yourself. That's my job. ---
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