On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 03:05:26PM -0400, Stuffed Crust wrote: > > Something else that would be useful would be to try running e2fsck > > with the "-C 0" option, and let me know what the progress bar does > > when it reaches "stage 2". > > This was with e2fsck 1.27, but I believe the progress bar locked at 70.6%. > The little spinner also stopped. I'll have to run it again to make > sure; I'll do that once the e2image dump finishes. Something really obvious to look at, which I should have mentione earlier: You may want to check your kernel log files, or dmesg, right after e2fsck hangs, and see if the device driver is reporting any errors. This could just be a simple bad block hardware problem. - Ted
