It's been a very long time since this happened to me, but my root partition seems to have come down with a case of bad block in the inode table. SCSI drive, too, though a bit old (not sure, maybe 7 years; its 4GB).
Fsck indicates the files affected aren't too numerous or critical, they are /root/.cpan/sources/authors /var/webmin/miniserv.pid /var/webmin/sessiondb.pag /var/webmin/sessiondb.dir I can live without these, or rebuild them, or reload them. Whatever. I've used 'cp -a' to move my root partition to another drive, and things are running happily. Now I would like to reclaim that partition. Is there a recommended incantation for getting that block into the bad blocks table without formatting the whole bloody thing? Should I just try writing on it and hope it doesn't sin any more? Should I worry about the whole drive going bad? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman (805) 650-6274 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Permanent e-mail forwarder: mailto:Kevin.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] At school: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~kogorman/index.html Web: http://kosmanor.com/~kevin/index.html "Life is short; eat dessert first!" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
