Hi Patrick! On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Patrick Gelin wrote: > Hi, > > I suspect bad blocs in my Hard disk, so I try the commande: > > e2fsck -c /dev/hdb1 (hdb1 not mounted) > > it calls badblocks, but it's very very long... after half a day I've checked > only 1/10 of my hard disk (IDE - 20 Go) > > 1. Is it normal? Don't know for sure, but I guess that kinda depends on the filesystem error thats being found?! > > 2. Can I do something else? I'd wait for the e2fscking to finish, see whats going on, what kind of problem turns out with the filesystem and then, in case you get it fixed, think about migrating to a journaling filesytem. But first let it finish the e2fsck even though it takes so long. Any helpful kernel messages? Axel ____________________________________________________________________________ Axel Siebenwirth phone +49 3641 776807 | Am Birnstiel 3 axel at pearbough dot net | 07745 Jena | Germany________________________________________________http://pearbough.net | I either want less decadence or more chance to participate in it. ____________________________________________________________________________ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
