On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Jose Barroca wrote: > This one had an interesting output: there was indication of an error > happening some 197 days ago. I could decipher the remaining info. Also, > the REALLOACTED_SECTOR_CT has a very high number, though it is labelled > "PRE_FAIL". That means your hard disk is about to fail, and has already reallocated a lot of sectors. Note that reallocating sectors may well explain your data corruption. The sectors got reallocated because the disk is broken - if everything worked right, the sectors would not have gotten reallocated. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
