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Disk/file system trouble
May I ask your help in the following problem?
First my linux began to boot very slowly. After some time boot failed,
there was a message `error reading block ...' and I was dropped to
a shell. I tried fsck.ext2 but next boot completely failed.
Next I booted with rescue disk, ran e2fsck which cleared some entries
or connected to lost+found. After all this treatment e2fsck returns
that the filesystem is clean, badblocks finds nothing. However...
Two things happen now:
1. During regular boot I get: /devcua1 no such file found
2. The screen remains dark, from time to time there is a flash of light
as a failed attempt to write. When I press Ctrl-Alt-Del, the screen
reappears and I see the process of shutdown.
I may still boot with rescue disk.
Question:
-What can I attempt in this situation?
-How can I check whether the disk is physically damaged or is
it the file system?
-Can I reinstall only the lost files?
-Or nothing to do but reinstall the whole system and wait to the next disk
crash?
Thanks,
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Uri Elias
Department of Mathematics, Technion, Haifa 32000, ISRAEL
Office: 04-8294183, Fax: 04-8324654, Home: 04-8221898
email: elias@techunix.technion.ac.il
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