Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1698 mails)

[Sampsa Riikonen <sampsa.lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear List,

I have an external 500 gb usb hard disk which I use for making backups.  
It seems to have some bad blocks..
when I am rsyncing files to it, I get error messages and it unmounts 
automatically (in dmesg: "kernel panic", etc.).

I have tried the following:

fsck.ext3 -v -f -y -c -c -C 0 /dev/sdb3

.. this should make a read/write test to the hard disk (it takes 
ages..!) and re-write the "bad block" inodes.
Unfortunately, the program says finally:

"could not allocate block in ext2 filesystem"

.. How can I fix the hard drive and isolate the bad sectors?

Regards,

Sampsa

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