Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 19:15 GMT, Rob Dupuis penned:
> Hi All.
>
> My one of my hard drives has a whole load of errors on it. When the
> machine boots fsck is run, and when it gets to some percentage (eg
> 69.9%) and then I get an msg that says 'Duplicate or bad block in
> use.' It then proceeds to start a pass for duplicate and bad blocks,
> and it finds a *lot* of bad/duplicate inodes. Unfortunately, before
> this pass can complete, the machine hangs (ie the pass stalls and num
> lock etc on the keyboard stops responding) and I have to hard reset to
> bring it back up.
>
> On one occasion, I the fsck on bootup did complete, but when I ran a
> fsck -p to try to fix the errors, this hung the machine in a similar
> way to above. The other (3) times it always hung on the boot fsck
> pass and at a different inode each time.
>
> I'm a bit of a linux newbie, so any help on ways forward would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Rob
>
Um, you do realize that if the hard drive is causing fsck to blow
chunks, it's because the hard drive is defective and needs to be
replaced, right?
--
monique
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