On Thursday 26 June 2008 04:26:14 Tim wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 June 2008 22:55:00 Hugo Mills wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:40:21PM +0100, Tim wrote:
> > > Ok the kernel log(1) is full of errors, not that I can make much out of
> > > it. Is it worth running fsck on the disk to see if it comes up with any
> > > errors??
> >
> > Possibly, but make sure you have backups of the data on some other
> > device first. There's a good chance that you'll end up screwing up the
> > filesystem even more by running fsck.
> >
> > It's also quite likely that the device needs replacement. You could
> > also try running badblocks on the device:
> >
> > # umount /dev/sdc1
> > # badblocks -w /dev/sdc
[snip]
> Well I started Hugo command at about 7-00pm last night, its is still
> running now (4-24am, yes its early), does it normally takes this long or do
> we assume the disk is dead (its a 500gb disk)??
I have known it take 13 hours to check an 80GB disk.
Lisi
