On Monday 21 August 2006 09:51, Antony Mawer wrote: > I brought this up on -stable the other day... see the thread titled "The > need for initialising disks before use?" (17/08/06). Knew it was somewhere recent :) > I've seen numerously "young" disks showing up plenty of read errors > (which smartctl seems to confirm are coming from the disk, and not > driver etc related), and would love to see some way to easily "fix" the > problem... these are all < 6mth old SATA drives... Ouch.. Time to switch drive maker. > Unfortunately dd'ing parts of an existing filesystem are a little more > complicated than when dealing with a swap partition :-( Yeah, you can do it but it is more complicated. There was a patch floating around for fsdb which showed what file a particular block was associated with. I'm not sure if it ever got merged though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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