Hi Sir
  See comments below.

On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Martin Stricker wrote:

> Jean Francois Ortolo wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >
> > > Any other files modified? Could be an indication of slow harddisc
> > > corruption.
> > Mmmmmhhhh
> >   Slow harddisc? I have an IBM 60GXP 41GB UDMA100 HD.
>
> You got a misunderstanding here. "slow harddisk corruption" is meaning
> the same as "slow corruption of harddisk". If your harddisk is some time
> old it might get slight hardware defects which won't turn up in a
> regular fschk, only in a physical check of the harddisk's surface.

  fsck, not fschk
  As I understand you,
  regular fsck = 'e2fsck -f -v -y /dev/xx'  ( without bad blocks checking
),
  physical check of the surface = 'e2fsck -f -c -v -y /dev/xx' ( with bad
blocks checking included ).
  It's available to omit the -y parameter, to ensure manual processing.

  For my own, I did the second e.g. physical check of the surface, then
reported the results in one of my recent posts, that is:
  - no bad block
  - there were disk changes being made.

  Apart from that, I bought this HD very recently, at the beginning of
July 2001, and this HD is a very recent type, which is not about to be an
old one.

> Also you're using an IBM IDE harddisk. Is it made in Hungary? There were
> many reports of quickly dying Hungarian IBM IDE disks recently.

  From the physical check results, it's very less than likely, that this
disk might be 'dying', at least for the moment.

  Yes, I keep wondering how this, and only this file, may have been
corrupted in my filesystem ( /dev/hda5 ). This happened while I tried to
run mysql from an xterm. Just before that, mysql was working fine without
any problem.

  I don't believe either a program, or a library, can write in the
library physical file. This is not possible, as much as my knowledge
comes.

  Many thanks for your advice.
  Best regards.

  Jean Francois Ortolo



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