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RE: Checking for bad sectors in a ReiserFS partition



Shlomo,
If the noises you here are "click-click-click" ones, it's possible that
there's mismatch between the actual disk geometry and the way Linux sees it.
Make sure you configured the disk properly in the BIOS and that the values
fdisk reports are correct ones for your disk. Also, the exact messages you
see on the console are important. I think that 6-month IBM disk developing
bad sectors is highly improbable. Also, if you played with hdparm maybe you
enabled something that either your IDE controller or the disk itself cannot
handle.

Sorry I don't know how you can check for bad sectors, but I do think that
your problem is elsewhere.

Haim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-il-bounce@cs.huji.ac.il
> [mailto:linux-il-bounce@cs.huji.ac.il]On Behalf Of Shlomi Fish
> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 8:51 AM
> To: linux-il@linux.org.il
> Subject: Checking for bad sectors in a ReiserFS partition
>
>
>
> Hi!
>
> It seems one of my ReiserFS partitions got corrupted, and I am able to
> reproduce a problem where I constantly hear strange noises out of my
> hard-disk and I get some error messages (from the kernel or something like
> that) on the virtual consoles.
>
> I'd like to check and mark the bad sectors, but I don't know how to do
> that. The reiserfsck program does not seem to do such a thing, so I'm
> asking you what does.
>
> The funny thing is that it's a 6 monthes old hard-disk from IBM, so it's
> not likely it will get corrupted so soon.
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Shlomi Fish
>
>
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