Re: EXT2 fs questions

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

shaul <shaul@rakefet.debian.org> writes:

> Lately I was forced into single user mode while booting because e2fsck had 
> discovered some problems with the HD.
> I was able to pass that after e2fsck -c. However, althought the fs is now 
> states itself as clean, running e2fsck -f still shows some errors (problems ?).

[snip]

> 2) Should I do something about these errors ?

Backup your data _now_.

> 3) I was trying to run badblocks, but failed. Probably becuase I didn't 
> supplied badblocks all the parameters it required, such as the block size. How 
> can I get this information ?

# sfdisk -s /dev/hda1		(or whatever)

What's the warranty on your HD like?  Modern IDE drives should only
have a few bad blocks on them, if any.  You should definitely backup,
then see if you can return it for a new drive.

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