Thus spake Paul A. Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm presently running fsck_ffs from a live cd.  It fsck'ed / with some 
> complaints about an unreadable sector.  It's now on /var and reporting 
> vast, vast numbers of sectors as unreadable, with "UNEXPECTED SOFT 
> UPDATE INCONSISTENCY".  I've not visited /usr yet. I hope my disk (with 
> less than 800 hours of service) hasn't been somehow physically borked. 
> (The windows partition boots and runs seemingly fine.)

If many (say, more than a track's worth) of sectors are unreadable
(e.g. you get a ``medium error''), your hard disk is probably
failing.

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