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
>
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>
> "Life is short; eat dessert first!"
My brother-in-law gave me a 8.4 gig Western Digital drive with a (some?)
bad blocks and a Quick Install disk that came with it. I ran the Data
Lifeguard program on the floppy and it "fixed" it. I have been using it
about a year, now. I haven't noticed any problems. I probably don't
get to play with mine as much as some of the rest of you. My wife has a
long honeydo list that cuts into my play time. Is there a similar
program offered by your drive's manufacturer?
Bob
--
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well,
than a fool can see from a mountain top.
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