Re: "Forever" fsck?

Andrew Gideon wrote:
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:49:32 -0400, Andrew Gideon wrote:


I didn't use the -k option when I last ran fsck with the badblocks option.
I've just started that now. I'm curious if it'll help (if the problem
blocks will be marked bad and subsequently ignored).


It looks like inode 7 is the "bad blocks inode".


Again, it's in an infinite look. I don't see anything but to reformat. Any other suggestions?

Yes. Please try to run the smarttools on the drive and see what they
report. It could be a dying hard disk.

So long,
Thomas
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