Hi, On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:58:49AM +0100, Ed W wrote: > So the question is how do I take this forward? I assume that it means a > dead sector? Probably, yes. > Is there any way to find out which files occupy that sector so > that I can be suspicious of their quality? debugfs can do that if you know the block number. > Can I mark the sector as bad and > recover any of the data? You can't recover data from the bad sector, but you can map it out with "e2fsck -c" if you want to. If you don't do that, the drive should map the bad block out anyway the next time you try to write to it. > Is this definitely a symptom of a failing disk? Looks like it, although if it's just one sector it might be a one-off thing. Cheers, Stephen
