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Re: badblocks



On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:33:21AM +0200, Christoph Bohle wrote:
> 
> The badblocks command found 3 badblocks at the very end of an ext2
> partition on my ibook2. e2fsck could not fix them saying something like
> "out of reach. ignoring". I would like to know if this is a serious
> problem with my harddisk or rather a problem with the powerpc ext2 support
> or with the badblocks command (or bad behaviour of OS X). 
> 
> (I did the badblocks check after some less succesfull experiments with the
> 2.4.11 Kernel that caused some problems with the filesystem. Suppose this
> has nothing to to with the badblocks.)

2.4.11 had a serious bug that caused in certain cases undeletable
files, the only way to get rid of them is debugfs.  

as for the badblocks im not sure.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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