On 09-10-20 03:03:25, charles zeitler wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Tony Nelson > <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > > 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. You're welcome, and good luck. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
