Re: Reiserfs & bad blocks??
Thanks for the reply; luckily, the machine is still bootable, and seems to
work fine except for the fact that I cannot install or remove any packages.
I'll back up the drive, and dig out the receipt; the drive is only 6 months
old and is still under warranty, so shouldn't have started deteriorating
quite yet...
B.
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 00:46, Crispin Wellington wrote:
> >
> > Is there a way (yet) to mark bad blocks on a reiserfs filesystem??
>
> No. Reiser does not handle bad-blocks. Ext2/3 does, but that doesn't
> mean anything, because you shouldn't get them in the first place. Modern
> HDD remap bad blocks internally, so if you see hard read error's like
> your seeing, your best bet is to get a new Hard Drive.
>
> This has happened to me, and I moved the filesystem to a new HDD, and
> re-formatted the dodgy drive with ext3 with a complete bad-block scan
> during the format. I now use this space as spare non-critical space.
> Lots of rubbish and downloads, and iso images (of cd's I have), and
> backups of data etc. I am fully expecting the HDD to start smoking any
> day and for me to loose all my data (which doesn't matter anyway). But
> so far its been turning for nigh on 6 months now without a blip.
>
> The important thing though, is *dont trust it*.
>
> Kind Regards
> Crispin Wellington
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