RE: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably
> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org]On Behalf Of Monique Y. Herman
> Sent: 09 October 2003 22:04
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: 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
>
Yeah, I thought that was probably the case. Is there any way I can boot the
machine and skip fsck running automatically, try to mount the drive and
salvage some of the data to another drive? (I should point out my system
drive is fine so I can boot OK if I unplug the defective drive, its my 180G
data drive thats screwed.)
Rob
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