On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 19:15 GMT, Rob Dupuis penned: > Hi All. > > My one of my hard drives has a whole load of errors on it. When the > machine boots fsck is run, and when it gets to some percentage (eg > 69.9%) and then I get an msg that says 'Duplicate or bad block in > use.' It then proceeds to start a pass for duplicate and bad blocks, > and it finds a *lot* of bad/duplicate inodes. Unfortunately, before > this pass can complete, the machine hangs (ie the pass stalls and num > lock etc on the keyboard stops responding) and I have to hard reset to > bring it back up. > > On one occasion, I the fsck on bootup did complete, but when I ran a > fsck -p to try to fix the errors, this hung the machine in a similar > way to above. The other (3) times it always hung on the boot fsck > pass and at a different inode each time. > > I'm a bit of a linux newbie, so any help on ways forward would be > greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, Rob >
Um, you do realize that if the hard drive is causing fsck to blow chunks, it's because the hard drive is defective and needs to be replaced, right? -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
