Hi, On Friday 30 January 2004 16:07, Alex Angerhofer wrote:
probably time to swap the HD out. I would try to force mount the partition and get off what you can. I did this with my /dev/hda which recently ended
I recently experienced an unrecoverable error with another journaling fs (jfs in my case). Also on a big HD. I went out and bought a new one (bigger) Mount the old partition/HD read only and copy it all to a new partition Badblocks tend to grow in my experience. On modern HD's teh HD's firmware replaces bad blocks by hidden spare ones (you will hear the head make quick full disk movements when reading/writing to them). If badblocks finds any, it means the disk has gone bad and is out of spare blocks. This tends to worsen with time. Replace now, and see if it still has warranty on it. If it is out of it, some makes have a tool on their website (windows/dos only, Maxtor is one example) that can lowelevel test a hd and rebuild (wipes disk) a HD skipping bad blocks and makeing new spares (iirc) But still, the safest is to replace it. BB, Arjen