Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Apr 1997 12:53:14 -0800 (PST) | From | Troy Morrison <> | Subject | Re: ext2 filesystem corruption?!?!?? (fwd) |
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On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Dave Wreski wrote:
| On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Doug Ledford wrote: | > A simple shell script like this will run four simultaneous badblocks programs | > on the drive. A person can then check the files in the /tmp directory to see | > if any were returned as bad. With modern IDE or SCSI drives, all of these | > files should have a zero length unless one of two things is true. One, you | > have a drive developing too many bad sectors to be mapped out (which is cause | | [deleted] | | A return of 0 proves its neither hardware or ext2, but a failure does not | indicate anything.
I think a return of 0 proves that the hardware/driver/cabling/etc works okay. badblocks doesn't go through the ext2fs filesystem, though, so it doesn't prove that the filesystem driver is bug-free. If you get errors, on the other hand, it can't be from ext2fs, so it must be one of the hardware/driver/cabling/etc things involved.
Troy
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