On Mon October 2 2006 1:41 pm, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > /boot does not need to be mounted to boot your system. Is > /boot in fstab? Can you mount it manually? If its not > mounted, you can certainly run fsck on it now. > I'm at work, now, and the machine is at home - I'll check when I get back. > > Anyhow, presuming my guessing above is correct, if I boot > > into single user mode and run FSCK on sda1, which is ext2, > > is there any reason that shouldn't work? How well does fsck > > actually do with bad sectors - does it attempt to read the > > data off of them and put it somewhere else? Any experience > > on the efficacy of fsck would be appreciated - I just > > rebuilt this machine from the bare drive up due to a stupid > > mistake last weekend - I'm sort of floored this is all > > happenning. > > fsck does not normally relocate data, it only fixes what > exists, to the best of its ability. Your drive should be > transparently dealing with bad blocks such that the data > doesn't get written to them. How old is your disk? Have you > run smartctl on it recently? The disk is almost brand new. Actually, I did run smartctl last night, though I didn't really understand all the output. One thing that jumped out was that for all three of my disks, there was a "test passed" message about 1/3 of the way down in the output. or maybe "disk passed" - I'll do it again when I get home. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, Md, USA
