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Title: Bad Blocks on HDD?
Post by: David Trask on November 15, 2001, 07:24:42 AM

Hi,

I'm getting a message in flexbackup to the emailed log that includes this message...

DUMP: read error from /dev/sda5: Input/output error: [block 28073152]:
count=4096

How can I fix this?  I've run badblocks....nothing seems to show up....I want to run fsck but I can't get /dev/sda5 unmounted...says it's busy.  Should I be concerned and how can I fix this?

David

Title: Re: Bad Blocks on HDD?
Post by: Des Dougan on November 15, 2001, 08:48:41 AM

David,

To run fsck on an active partition, you'll need to bring the system down to single user mode and run fsck from there. "man shutdown" should help with the parameters.

Des Dougan

Title: Re: Bad Blocks on HDD?
Post by: Gav on November 15, 2001, 12:32:24 PM

To go into single mode before e-smith starts up you have to type on  the command line linux -s

which tell this to go into single mode hope this is of any help!


Gav