Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 02:43:42 -0800 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: "Paul A. Mayer" <paul@fnug.net> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: devastating 5.0R crash Message-ID: <20030217104342.GA7156@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <3E50B970.8040606@fnug.net> References: <3E50B970.8040606@fnug.net>
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Thus spake Paul A. Mayer <paul@fnug.net>: > I'm presently running fsck_ffs from a live cd. It fsck'ed / with some > complaints about an unreadable sector. It's now on /var and reporting > vast, vast numbers of sectors as unreadable, with "UNEXPECTED SOFT > UPDATE INCONSISTENCY". I've not visited /usr yet. I hope my disk (with > less than 800 hours of service) hasn't been somehow physically borked. > (The windows partition boots and runs seemingly fine.) If many (say, more than a track's worth) of sectors are unreadable (e.g. you get a ``medium error''), your hard disk is probably failing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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