input/output error on disk(?)

[charles zeitler]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:49 PM, charles zeitler <cfzeitler at gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks for the help, Tony.
> i finally checked the results of cat'ing to /dev/null,
> which found 11 troubled files. having removed them,
> am now running smartctl -t on umounted disk.
>
>>
>>    # tar -cvf - --ignore-failed-read --one-file-system / \
>>      2>/some/other/volume/tarfiles.txt | cat >/dev/null
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> --
>
second try  of smartctl -t  yielded the same results-
i may have removed    files from 11 bad blocks-
and missed the first.

am now running the tar seq. above (fingers crossed)


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>


charles zeitler
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