On Friday 14 April 2006 14:30, John Jolet wrote: > as the others said, start digging a grave for this drive. Had a > drive doing the same thing on a production box for a few months, > phbs waited till it just died to order the replacement. these kinds > of errors are warning signs of impending doom.
Just to follow up on this one. It did last a couple of weeks before I really started digging into this. It has turned out that you and Volker Armin were right. I never was able to backup that particular partition (containing /, /usr, /tmp, /opt, /var, /etc) since even dd if=/dev/hda6 gave up after a while reporting an I/O error. All other partitions, however, are backed up properly, and nothing that could not be replaced was on that partition. At present I have tried reiserfsck --badblocks bad.txt with both --fix-fixable and --rebuild-tree. --fix-fixable told me to run --rebuild-tree and --rebuild-tree failed leaving the partition unmountable. I also tried dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda6 which failed after a while. I finally tried formatting the partition with NTFS just to see if Windoze handles this better. Formatting it worked fine, scandisk returned no errors and I could copy 1,5 GB of data to the partition before it failed with a hardware error... In other words it doesn't. ;) Also during all those attempts the Current_Pending_Sectors reported by S.M.A.R.T. has grown from 39 to now 102.. So the result is that I have used another partition for my system since last friday and that the drive will be replaced next monday. Since that other partition is way smaller than the one I used to use and because it is such a short time, I thought I'd take the opportunity to try another distribution i.e. Kubuntu Dabber (beta) with KDE 3.5.2. I must say that I am impressed by the present state of Kubuntu, but I also really miss the control that Gentoo provides so next monday I'll be installing Gentoo on a brand new and more partitioned harddrive. :) I also really miss something equivalent to eix/diff-eix/eix-sync for Debian based systems. Hopefully (and probably) an insurance I have will pay for the replacement (except I'm going to purchase a bigger drive and will pay the difference). -- Bo Andresen
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