Re: Disk Error

[Alexandre Ratchov <aratchov@magphy.ujf-grenoble.fr>]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:13:23PM +0100, Sam Hamilton wrote:
> 
> What can be done about this "uncorrectable data error" - is it possible to
> get the fs to ignore this part of the disk?
> 
> 

hello, 

i had the same problem; you can use:

dd if=/dev/rwd2c of=/dev/null 

to figure out which part of the hard disk has bad blocks. Then you can try
to create an unused partition which contains all the bad blocks. Probably
you'll need to reinstall your system.



-- 
Alex