on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:56:43PM +0000, Matthew Sackman (matthew@sackman.co.uk) wrote: > Please help someone, and quickly!! > > I have found that on my root drive (which is /dev/hdb4), I have a read > fault on block 131077. This is disrupting the boot sequence, and > putting a whole load of file system errors on other file systems. > > I have run through with fsck and it reports a : > > Error reading block 131077 (Attempt to read block from filesystem > resulted in short read) while doing inode scan. > > The boot up gets fairly screwed as it is having major problems in > reading from the root file system. Fsck it seems can not fix it, and > none of my linux books talk of any other disk repair utilities. Does > anyone know what I should do? If you don't have comprehensive system backups, this is the time time to make them. I'd try running a (nondestructive) badblocks test on the partition -- you'll likely have to boot another device, possible a floppy distro of GNU/Linux. I tend to suspect bad hardware and toss it when I start getting disk errors. You might try repairing the issue, but if it returns, your time and data are more valuable than the disk. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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