One of my filesystems has gone bad - it's full of errors. I tried reformatting it (with mkfs) and eventually the same thing happened again.
Were the errors in the same places, or were they in different places? Another format and keeping track of these trends would help you to determine if the errors are actual bad sectors showing up, or red herrings.
However, other filesystems on the same drive seem to be OK. So -
1. Is there anything available to check exhaustively the soundness of the disk itself (or even better, that particular partition of it)?
Under dos-like partitions, yes. I've had very good luck with Gibson Technologies "Spinrite 5.0" product. I think www.spinrite.com will take you to their site. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/