rohit bhute wrote: > > Another issue was I am getting 'could not read block <7-8 digit > number>' errors (which would terminate all the operations) when I > tried to merge two partitions on this drive - by deleting one and > growing the other. I got same error when I deleted the second one and > created a new one of size equal to sum of earlier drives. I succeeded > when I tried again second time. > > To check your ext3 hdd for bad blocks, use 'e2fsck -c (or -cc) /dev/partition'. Do this using a live CD as your partition has to be unmounted for the check.
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