135 GB ext3 on broken drive -- other possibilities than "e2fsck -y"?

[Milan Holzäpfel]

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On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 02:45:27 +0100
Christian <evilninja at gmx.net> wrote:

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> Milan Holzäpfel schrieb:
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> >>>And after my second fsck attempt, every further fsck does this:
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> >>>| linux root # fsck.ext3 /dev/hdc8 -y
> >>>| e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
> >>>| /dev/hdc8 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
> >>>| Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
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> so, you did "fsck -y" and after this the fs still had unfixable errors?
> is there anything useful in the kernel logs, maybe hardware errors? (disk,
> cables, controller, memory, power)

IIRC yes.  These fscks were run on a drive which seems to be still ok,
and I think that there was nothing in the kernel logs about this drive
or anything else which would be unusual, but I'm not completely sure.  I
guess I'll check one more time.  

thanks for your answer
Milan
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