Re: Bad Blocks?

[Gerrit Hannaert <degerrit@web.de>]

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Often hard drive manufacturers provide utilities to check their disks and 
remap bad blocks, I was able to get rid of mine using Maxtor's Powermax or 
something. After that you can reiserfsck --rebuild-tree and you should end up 
with a mountable fs.

However, you should see this as a temporary measure (to mount your fs, and 
make a good backup) - in my experience with this one disk, more bad blocks 
keep appearing after a while. (Against my own advice, I'm still using my 
disk, though)

Also see http://namesys.com/bad-block-handling.html

Cheers,
- - Gerrit


On Wednesday 30 October 2002 18:35, Preston Lord wrote:
> I am running the latest reiserfsprogs 3.6.4
>
> I came home last week to find my Linux pc was locked up. After rebooting
> the root partition would not mount. All other partitions are fine. I
> have the failed hard drive in another linux pc now and am trying to
> recover the data from the failed partition. When I run
>
> reiserfsck --check /dev/hda5
>
> I get this:
>
> The problem has occurred looks like a hardware problem.
> Check your hard drive for badblocks.
>
> bread: Cannot read the block (16).
>
>
> how can I fix this bad block?
>
> Linux Kernel 2.4.18
>
> Thanks
>
> Preston
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