fsck ( = FileSystem ChecK) is what you want. Assuming your filesystem is
ext2, the actual app will be either e2fsck or fsck.ext2 (varies by
distribution and version). Normally, you want to fsck only unmounted
filesystems, and I don't offhand recall how to deal with the root filesystem
in this regard (other than the obvious option of booting with a rescue disk
and running e2fsck from it on the now-unmounted root filesystem).
And yes, it's probably a bad block on the hard drive.
At 07:35 PM 3/19/99 -0500, Mandy wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I just had something strange happen to me..........I tried to do a find for
>something and the first time i did it, it found some things, but nothing i
>wanted........but at the end of the screen it said:
>
>DIRECTORY SREAD (sector 0x20) FAILED
>
>Well, I did the same find over again and it filled the ENTIRE screen with
>this! What is going on???? Do I have a bad hard drive sector?? How can I find
>out?? is there a scandisk for Linux or something? I am running RH5.2, with
>KDE(not version 1.1) on a PII 233 mhz, 32 MB RAM, if that helps any.
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