UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY and Harddisk problem

[Ed Wilts]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:10:33PM +0800, Ong Ying Ying wrote:
> I have 1 harddisk which has bad sectors/blocks. It gave out sound when 
> it was formatting for installation. I continued without checking for bad 
> blocks cause it would get hung when it checked for bad blocks.

It looks like you have physical problems with your drive.   Replace it.

> What can I do for such a case? Can't Linux mark bad blocks so that they 
> can't be used? Does it have something like scandisk or chkdsk?

Most modern drives allow you to run badblocks and mark them so they're
not used. However, in practise, this is a waste of time.  In the gold
old days, you could this and get some more life out of your drive.
These days, you won't buy yourself much time - the drive is failing and
will continue to fail.  It is not worth the effort.

> Don't tell me that the harddisk cannot be used anymore cause I have 
> another harddisk which is less than 2 years old since I bought and it 
> has some such problems.

I have seen this on drives that are new and drives that are old.  Age
has nothing to do with it.

> Luckily, it can still be used. In a day, I use less than 8 hours and I
> don't use the computer everyday. (Average of 3 hrs a day)

You're out of luck.

        .../Ed

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
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