On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09-10-18 17:34:11, charles zeitler wrote: >> >> am now running the new, improved >> >> 'cp /dev/zero'.... >> >> >> > done. 'current_pending' reduced to 1. >> > trying a long test... >> >> done. still showing the 'read failure', on the same block, >> with 90% unchecked... >> >> i'll try to work out something to check bad dir files... > > Or maybe back up and restore, possibly with the manufacturer's low- > level format in between? > > I wouldn't expect fsck to succeed if there were a bad dir file. > u huh. well , apparently, the block that's causing the 'read failure' isn't being used by a (normal) file... but, i'm planning on an upgrade anyways, that'll be an opportunity to clean things up. thanks for guiding me in the use of smartctl & /dev/zero. stuff i'll probably need again. > -- > 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