On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:27:50 -0500 "Brad Tilley" <b...@16systems.com> wrote:
> > What I really want to do here is understand *why* some portion of > > the disk has become unreadable? > > > cd /bad_partition && dd if=/dev/zero of=big_file.zero bs=512 > conv=sync,noerror > > Let it run until it finishes. That won't explain why the sectors are > bad, but it may give a good indication of the problem area and answer > the failing drive question. If dd reports IO issues, you may want to > replace the drive. > > Brad Thanks Brad. If it was an unnecessary partition, I'd do a destructive overwrite to see what it does. Unfortunately, it's /usr/. I'm going to toss a new disk in the box, and do a fresh install on the new disk, so I can reliably play with the old one. --
