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I got a hard disk I/O error and subsequent kernal panic yesterday.
Running e2fsck -c finds a bad block on my 270 meg esdi partition,
it's towared the end of the partition so I've been running a while
before running into it.  I'm using e2fs and e2fsck 0.3.  I followed the
advice of some recent posts to boot from a floppy and run e2fsck -ca on
the unmounted partition and the bad block would be added to the bad
block list.  This does not appear to be happening, the bad block list
that is displayed by e2fsck is not altered and I still get a kernal
panic when the block is encountered by a program.  

Is there a way to manually alter the list or force e2fsck to do it?
I can't backup and then rerun mke2fs and dump everything back on
because tar hangs when it runs into the bad block.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Dave Campbell
Hughes Aircraft
602-887-4783

Quote:> I got a hard disk I/O error and subsequent kernal panic yesterday.
> Running e2fsck -c finds a bad block on my 270 meg esdi partition,
> it's towared the end of the partition so I've been running a while
> before running into it.  I'm using e2fs and e2fsck 0.3.  I followed the
> advice of some recent posts to boot from a floppy and run e2fsck -ca on
> the unmounted partition and the bad block would be added to the bad
> block list.  This does not appear to be happening, the bad block list
> that is displayed by e2fsck is not altered and I still get a kernal
> panic when the block is encountered by a program.  

Could you possibly repeat the e2fsck procedure twice, and tell me if
the same error is reported both times?  This would be a sure
indication that e2fsck is correctly marking the block as bad.

Do you really get a kernel panic?  A kernel error message is normal,
but not a panic.  Please mail me with as many details as you can
provide if this is in fact happening.  An HD I/O error report,
resulting in the "EIO" system call error code, should be the result.

This applies to anybody with suspected problems with the ext2fs
filesystem; let me know and if I can identify a real problem with
ext2fs I will try to help.

Cheers,
 Stephen.
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Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.