Re: Bad root partition :(

[Michele Bini <mibin@tin.it>]

On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 05:40:28PM +0000, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
>     Hi Debian users,
>     after a powerdown, my root partition have the following errors with
> the comand:
>     # e2fsck /dev/hda2
>     Dec 19 13:33:59 phantasy kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError}, LBAsect=340075, sector=82026
>     Dec 19 13:33:59 phantasy kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02,
> sector 82026
>     Dec 19 13:34:23 phantasy kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
> DriveReadySeekComplete Error }
>     Dec 19 13:34:23 phantasy kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError}, LBAsect=291085, sector=33034
>     Dec 19 13:34:23 phantasy kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02,
> sector33034
>     Dec 19 13:34:24 phantasy kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
> DriveReadySeekComplete Error }
>     Dec 19 13:34:24 phantasy kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError}, LBAsect=291085, sector=33036
>     Dec 19 13:34:24 phantasy kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02,
> sector33036

This seems to be an hardware/kernel error/bug rather than a
fsck bug.

> 
>     After reading e2fsck man page, I couldn't figure how to repair this.
> Is there some option to clean these errors with e2fsck or other command.

Try running badblocks (_without_ -w)

>     If not, I will have to reinstall :(
>     Have a nice day,        Paulo Henrique
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