"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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks at nerd.com -
- AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 -
- -
- "I was contemplating the immortal words of Socrates when he said, -
- 'I drank what?'" -- Val Kilmer in "Real Genius" -
----------------------------------------------------------------------
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list