On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:49 PM, charles zeitler <cfzeitler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > thanks for the help, Tony. > i finally checked the results of cat'ing to /dev/null, > which found 11 troubled files. having removed them, > am now running smartctl -t on umounted disk. > >> >> # tar -cvf - --ignore-failed-read --one-file-system / \ >> 2>/some/other/volume/tarfiles.txt | cat >/dev/null >> >> Good luck. >> >> -- > second try of smartctl -t yielded the same results- i may have removed files from 11 bad blocks- and missed the first. am now running the tar seq. above (fingers crossed) >> TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> >> > charles zeitler -- Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole of The Law -Aleister Crowley -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines