On Thursday 27 September 2007 16:03, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Wait a second...
Per hdparm -I /dev/sda, my drive only has 312518818 sectors, so why is Linux even trying to read sector 312518818?
Linux accepts the size you specify when you format a file system. When doing so, it is unlikely to need to read that sector, only include it's index in a free block. Only when the demand for free blocks causes that block to be allocated will the drive be asked to read or write it.
I'm going to fsck my root partition, since my boot is failing so early on.
Unless you perform a check that includes a scan of free sectors (*), this is not necessarily going to confirm the accessibility of every sector in the free list. (*) Assuming there is such a check option for the file system in question.
i.e. Sector 312518818 is one past the end of the drive. (0-312518817 is the valid range I assume.)
FYI: smartctl is showing zero remapped sectors.
Greg
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