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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks for all the help. I ended up using Kirby’s
suggestion:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> root# init 1</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> root# mount –o remount,ro /dev/hda5</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> root# e2fsck –C /dev/hda5</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Mark</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Dr. Mark H. Shapiro</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Professor of Physics, Emeritus</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>California</span></font><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> State University, Fullerton</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Phone: 714 278-3884</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>FAX: 714 278-5810</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>email: <a href="mailto:mshapiro@fullerton.edu">mshapiro@fullerton.edu</a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>web: <a
href="http://chaos.fullerton.edu/Shapiro.html">http://chaos.fullerton.edu/Shapiro.html</a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>travel and family pictures:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://community.webshots.com/user/mhshapiro">http://community.webshots.com/user/mhshapiro</a>
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