[nylug-talk] fsck chestnut

[alex@pilosoft.com]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, matt black wrote:

> 2. was really hoping there was a preferred solution beyond the obvious
> fsck off a live cd, which just doesn't seem like it should be the best
> way, we did try it and we got:
> 
> 3. running fsck -rf from the live cd says its clean, except for 1.7%
> noncontiguous files. clearly of course its not a clean HD, according to
> dmesg, so what's our next step to maintaining this system?
It is clean. It just has bad sectors. Stop trying to fsck with it
[literally]. Replace the drive, restore data, done.

-alex