Suggest you dump it. Once they start to go bad they just keep peeling and losing data, then the ability to boot.
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >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 > > > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
