On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:24:28PM -0400, Daniel Savard wrote: > Le mercredi 27 avril 2005 ? 00:45 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a ?crit : > > Daniel Savard schrieb: > > > I opened the system and checked everything. May bad cooling cause > > > permanent disk errors? > > > > yes. > > ;-( > > So, I guess I have no much choice other than backup the problematic > filesystems if possible, destroy them and recreate them? I suppose the > drive is still usable with only a few bad sectors and the new filesystem > will take care of (avoid) them. Is it a correct assumption?
Usually if bad sectors are being reported to the OS, the disk is really dying. Most (all?) modern drives transparently relocate bad blocks to some space reserved just for that purpose, so if actual errors are being reported then the drive has run out of those "extra" blocks. Again, this is usually a sign that blocks are becoming bad at a fairly quick rate and that something external could be causing it (malfunctioning drive circuitry etc). So, I would use caution in this case. You could run the badbloocks command to figure out where the bad sectors are and note how many there are to compare later. mkfs.jfs has a "-c" option which will also check for badblocks and mark them as such to JFS. Sonny ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id=105hix _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
