-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2005-10-10 at 22:04 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Nope, it was just a certain couple of files. I ended up assuming the worst - bad blocks. Backed up my /home (luckily it's on a separate partition), ran all reiserfs' diagnostic modes, formatted the partition ext3, ran the fsck.ext3's badblock scan. Came out clean every time. Copied all my stuff back, and all is well now.
The hard disk hardware can remap bad blocks on the fly without telling you. This action is trigered on write to a bad block.
Unfortunately I didn't have time to troubleshoot his in depth - need my notebook to make a living!
You can perhaps check the SMART log: smartctl -a /dev/hda - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDSwjotTMYHG2NR9URAsOJAJ0YecDrrgnNY0+wnQcuV9gJDk7vWwCdHvia KRHOM9SRJN+7O9ZxgOcylBE= =DD7p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----