On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 11:13:01AM -0500, linda hanigan wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am once again having file system/ hard drive problems. 2 weeks ago I had
> problems ran fsck and was okay. Now today it once again started sending
> errors that it hda could not recieve command etc for a bout 20 minutes I let
> it run on in hopes that I would eventually be able to shutdown and finally
> had
> to turn it off. I ran e2fsck -cf this time. It did not tell me that it found
> any bad blocks. The filesystem though had numerous problems with bad groups
> and inodes that had to be fixed. Both times the messed up file system was
> /dev/hda10 which is root. (Well atleast I shouldn't have to worry about
> my data and programs that I am working on as they are on different
> partitions)
> Am I right in thinking I have problems with the physical hard drive or
> should I be looking for something else. Are there other tests I should run.
> I really do not want to run destructive tests. Another option that crossed
> my mind is I could do a complete reinstall and reformat and check all the
> partitions except /home and /usr/local/lib which have data and programs. Of
> course than I have to reconfigure everything but if it would permanetly
> solve my problem....
Do you have an available partition or free space anywhere? If so, copy
/ there (cp -a), then reboot with 'root=/dev/hda12' or whatever, mkfs
on the old root, copy everything back. This makes a nice safety hatch
too, in case of catastrophic problems with root (been there).
I don't think there is any really way to know of a pending drive
failure for certain, short of 20-20 hindsight after the fact. There
may be symptoms and warnings, but some of the same symptoms might be
caused by a bad cable, loose cable, bad ram, controller, etc. Probably
worth checking these things first. Also, if you are doing anything
with 'hdparm', you might undo that for a while and see if that is
contributing.
FWIW, I am going thru the same thing with my / on a fairly new drive.
Next error, and the drive goes in the trash.
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Hal B
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