fsck
Ben Russo
ben at muppethouse.com
Wed Nov 17 17:43:27 UTC 2004
Ryan Golhar wrote:
> I've been getting these errors lately on one of my machines:
>
> WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
> I/O error: dev 08:02, sect...: 36Time(s)
> Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error - auto
> reallocat...: 36Time(s)
> Current sd08:02: sense key Medium Error...: 36Time(s)
> EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,2))...: 36Time(s)
>
> I ran fsck on it and it found some inconsistencies and fixed them. Is
> there a way I can scan the drive for bad blocks or something. I suspect
> the drive is failing from a power outage that occurred -- we're still
> waiting for UPS on these machines.
>
> Ryan
>
There is a "badblocks" program, read the manpage carefully.
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