Re: hard disk recovered?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 10:55:16PM -0400, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
>On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I was going to bring down the htdig partition for one more fruitless
>> attempt at fixing this problem
>
>I stumbled on "/sbin/badblocks" which may or may not be useful; I've never
>run it.

Hmm.  fsck should run this automatically if you give it the -c option,
or at least that is how I'm interpreting what I've read.  I guess I'll
try that next.  Thanks for the pointer.

>> but it looks like htdig is running on it
>> now.
>
>Yep.  Please wait a little while, it's in the word-sorting phase.  See
>"~htdigid/gcc/update-log.failed.2001-04-07d".  It might just succeed this
>time; fingers crossed.  It's soon over anyway...
>
>> If I wanted to just stop everything htdig related for a while, do I have
>> to do more than just umount the partition?  I'm thinking about backing
>> up and mkfs'ing the partition again to see if that solves things.
>
>See <URL: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/overseers/2001-q2/msg00001.html >,
>last paragraph.

Thanks for the reference.  Sorry that I didn't recall reading this before.
I'm watching the process now.  I hope that the fact that the seconds are
ticking and there are no apparent errors in /var/log/messages is a good
sign.

Once this completes, I'll umount the partition and run fsck again.  I
just upgraded e2fsck on sourceware.  Maybe the new version will find
something that previously was missed.

cgf