[WBEL-users] Update on my e2fsck problem -- fixed!

[Shapiro, Mark]

Thanks for all the help.  I ended up using Kirby's suggestion:

 

 root# init 1

 root# mount -o remount,ro /dev/hda5

 root# e2fsck -C /dev/hda5

 

However that test returned with a "clean" file system even though I
still suspected that I had a few bad blocks on the disk.  So after
reading the man page for e2fsck, I noted that there is a -c option that
forces a bad block test.

 

So I substituted e2fsck -c /dev/hda5 for e2fsck -C /dev/hda5 and sure
enough it found an marked the bad blocks, then on subsequent passes I
was able to repair the file system.

 

Mark

 

 

Dr. Mark H. Shapiro

Professor of Physics, Emeritus

California State University, Fullerton

Phone: 714 278-3884

FAX: 714 278-5810

email: mshapiro at fullerton.edu

web: http://chaos.fullerton.edu/Shapiro.html

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http://community.webshots.com/user/mhshapiro 

 

 

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