[linux-lvm] read_intr errors

Wolfgang Weisselberg weissel at netcologne.de
Thu Oct 18 00:09:32 UTC 2001


Hi, Erick!

Erick Calder (e at arix.com) wrote:
> From Karl

> > Have you tried mke2fs with the -c option in LVM and on the drive without

> I haven't tried that but if I unmount the filesystem and check it:

> # umount /dev/LVM/mp3z
> # fsck /dev/LVM/mp3z

> it comes up clean....  is that not an equivalent test?

No.  Definitively not.  mke2fs -c also runs badblocks(8),
which tries to read every single byte in the partition.
(Optionally you can even have it do a write test.  There is
even a non-destructive write test in newer badblocks.  Use with
care and do have current backups.)

fsck just checks that the metadata (directories, space used
by files, etc) looks OK.

-Wolfgang




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