"One or more disks are failing" ?

Rick Stevens ricks at nerd.com
Tue Jul 7 19:55:36 UTC 2009


Robin Laing wrote:
> I am also seeing this on drives that are only a few months old.  I was 
> having system crashes so I wouldn't be surprised about the need to 
> re-allocate blocks.
> 
> Now the question that I pose is, how do get these blocks allocated/moved 
> that is safe for data on the drives?  What is the best method to get 
> these blocks allocated?
> 
> Can badblocks be used?

It could, but it'd be far safer if you were to use, say 'e2fsck -c'
from a live CD rather than badblocks alone because of the block size
dependencies and such, and you want to keep the files whole if possible.
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