Corruption

[J.L. Coenders]

Rick, Chris, and the rest of this list,

I am running ext2, but I think I have already found the problem with the help 
of another mailinglist, but thanks anyway.

The Maxtor diagonistics tool gives no problems, but memtest86 gives two bad 
addresses, which probably gives me my problem.

Jeroen

On Saturday 01 May 2004 00:06, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Chris Hewitt wrote:
> > Rick Stevens wrote:
> >> J.L. Coenders wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> Does anyone know how to check for corrupt files/disks, etc.? I have
> >>> some issues archiving my Mail directory (see subject: Tar/Zip/Rar
> >>> trouble) and am wondering if anyone knows how to check this?
> >>
> >> There's no way to check for corrupt files because there's no way to
> >> know what's supposed to be in the file in the first place.  The only
> >
> > I've not been following this thread so this may have been mentioned
> > before (if so I apologise).
>
> It's not much of a thread, Chris.  Just one message before my pithy
> (or should that be "pathetic") response.
>
> >                            If you are having so much trouble with file
> > corruption that you are looking for a way to check for it then there is
> > probably something fundermental wrong. I would suggest running fsck
> > anyway, but it could be that you disc drive is on the way out. What
> > filesystem are you using? ext2/ext3 are pretty robust, but ReiserFS is
> > reported to be more liable to corruption that some others.
>
> Very true.  reiserfs is faster than greased owl droppings but you pay
> for that with filesystem fragility.  Me?  I like cast-iron filesystems.
> I've spent too many late nights futzing with recoveries.
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