You should definitely not be using hard disks that you know have bad sectors; at any rate, fsck will check and try to repair hard drive errors, although in your case, it looks like your having physical hard drive problems...time to get a new drive -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ong Ying Ying Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:11 AM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY;RUN fsck MANUALLY and Harddisk problem I have 1 harddisk which has bad sectors/blocks. It gave out sound when it was formatting for installation. I continued without checking for bad blocks cause it would get hung when it checked for bad blocks. During the first boot, it dropped into shell when it was checking the filesystem. .. Checking file systems /var contains a file system with errors, check forced. Error reading block 131076 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) while doing inode scan. /var: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e., without -a or -p options) [FAILED] *** An error occurred ... *** Dropping you to a shell ... Give root password ... So I did fsck -V -r /var During the 1st check (inodes, blocks and sizes), the same message as the above came out and asked whether to ignore the error. (yes) In the second check (directory structure), it came out Entry 'yp' in / (2) has deleted/unused inode 58896. Clear<y>? (no) Error message like in the 1st check came out again and I chose to ignore again. Entry 'yp' in / (2) has an incorrect filetype (was 0t, should be 0) Fix<y>? (no) Entry 'ftp' in / (2) has deleted/unused inode 58903. Clear<y>? I decided not to continue and ignore them all. What can I do for such a case? Can't Linux mark bad blocks so that they can't be used? Does it have something like scandisk or chkdsk? Don't tell me that the harddisk cannot be used anymore cause I have another harddisk which is less than 2 years old since I bought and it has some such problems. Luckily, it can still be used. In a day, I use less than 8 hours and I don't use the computer everyday. (Average of 3 hrs a day) Please tell me what I can do for this problem. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list www.preferredcare.org "An Outstanding Member Experience," Preferred Care HMO Plans -- J. D. Power and Associates Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this electronic message is intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above and may contain privileged or confidential information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that dissemination, distribution or copying of this information is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone and destroy the copies you received. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
