Re: fsck UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY

2010-03-02 Thread STeve Andre'
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 13:35:23 J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:06:46 -0500 and...@msu.edu wrote: > > Quoting "J.C. Roberts" : > > > And I thought I was expected to be inconsistent. ;) > > > > > > Anyhow, I was upgrading from the Feb 2, to the most recent > > > snapshot, and fsck is

Re: fsck UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY

2010-03-02 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:06:46 -0500 and...@msu.edu wrote: > Quoting "J.C. Roberts" : > > > And I thought I was expected to be inconsistent. ;) > > > > Anyhow, I was upgrading from the Feb 2, to the most recent > > snapshot, and fsck is coming up with a problem on one of my > > partitions. I can pr

Re: fsck UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY

2010-03-02 Thread Philip Guenther
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:06 AM, wrote: ... > I've seen the smart system report errors and have had them become > true a few times, but far more often I've seen the damn things report > "No proble, Boss" and then died a little later... I seem to recall a USENIX paper from google (perhaps for the

Re: fsck UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY

2010-03-02 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:27:50 -0500 "Brad Tilley" 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

Re: fsck UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY

2010-03-02 Thread andres
Quoting "J.C. Roberts" : > And I thought I was expected to be inconsistent. ;) > > Anyhow, I was upgrading from the Feb 2, to the most recent snapshot, and > fsck is coming up with a problem on one of my partitions. I can probably > get it working ("fix" is such a strong word) with `fsck -fy` but

Re: fsck UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY

2010-03-02 Thread Brad Tilley
On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:50 -0800, "J.C. Roberts" wrote: > And I thought I was expected to be inconsistent. ;) > > Anyhow, I was upgrading from the Feb 2, to the most recent snapshot, and > fsck is coming up with a problem on one of my partitions. I can probably > get it working ("fix" is such a st

fsck UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY

2010-03-02 Thread J.C. Roberts
And I thought I was expected to be inconsistent. ;) Anyhow, I was upgrading from the Feb 2, to the most recent snapshot, and fsck is coming up with a problem on one of my partitions. I can probably get it working ("fix" is such a strong word) with `fsck -fy` but my real concern is if the drive is