On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:42:31AM +0200, Dan Shimshoni wrote:
> ..
>
> Does it says that I have a problem with my disk that may cause a disk crash ?
>
> I googled for this and there are so many suggestions, so I am quite
> bewildered.
>
> Did anybody encountered this problem ?
> Should I run "fsck" ? or maybe reinstall the distro (which is Fedora Core)?
> or rush and buy a new disk ?
What I would do:
1. Run a full backup. I would use tar with the option to ignore
read errors.
2. Reboot from a rescue disk and run fsck with the surface check option.
This could take a long time.
3. Run spinrite (if you have an x86 system).
4. If the manufacutrer of your disk has a data recovery/diagnostic
program
run it.
If this is a system which someone has money invested in, such as for a business,
I would run out and replace it. Then I would run spinrite on it and if it
worked.
use it for something I did not care about, such as temporary files, netnews,
spool,
etc.
Geoff.
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