Re: fsck finding thousands of errors
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:20:40PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
>hi ya
>
>On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, George Georgalis wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:43:21PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote:
>> >Do you know what's wrong with this hard drive, or how to troubleshoot it?
>> >It's almost brand new, but is it a warranty item?
>>
>> who knows maybe it's software error, but more likely a loss of power
>> while running/writting, but much much more likely a disk failure.
>>
>> anyway, you can use the -y option in fsck to answer yes to all the
>> questions.
>
>the system will fsck your disk if its not properly shutdown
>
>using "-y" to fsck is a bad idea, unless oyu know why its fsck'ing in the
>first place
> - if its bad mmory... i dont want the disk touched
>
>assuming that it was shutdown properly ...
>- if your bios time is whacky... so can fsck...
>
>- if you have bad memory... it will try to fix the drive according to
> its bad memory content....
>
>- if its a brand new disk... there probably wasnt anything
> wrong with it if it installed and was rebooted a few times
> before the last sleep of 2 months
>
>- somebody else played with your system and powered it off incorrectly
>
>the magic pixie dust did it
>
>your best bet is to re-install again...
> if it happens again..swapp out either the memory or disk
> or maybe even a bad cpu that has gone bonkers
>
Interesting points worth considering.... but if you do decide to run
fsck, I don't see any reason not to use -y I don't know when humans
wouldn't answer 'y' during a check anyway...
Regards,
// George
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