Bad Blocks on Rieserfs - How to Fix?

Nick W · l33t Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 684

Hi all,

I have found some bad blocks on a disk, (dev/hdb1 mounted at /)

I notice on the manpage for reiserfsck that their is a --badblocks option to be used with --rebuild-tree BUT, on the livecd, that option is not there....?

What to do?

<added> the badblcok that badblocks reported was the very last block on the disk, is it really a bad block?)</added>

Much thanks

Nick

bin-doph · Guru Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 302

Hi,

check out this
http://www.namesys.com/bad-block-handling.html
and keep in mind that
[snip]bad block handling is supported since reiserfsprogs-3.6.12-pre1.[/snip] I had a thread open for updateing the reiserfstools on the live-cd but can't find it right now. The point is, that withouth the tools its not really pretty to get rid of those blocks, since your hdd needs to be unmounted to perform those actions IIRC.

hth
-fe
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oumpah-pah · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 7:30 pm Post subject:

On the knoppix 3.4 CD, you have reiserfsprogs 3.6.17-1, so you can use it instead of the gentoo liveCD.

Nick W · l33t Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 684

Ok, Im writing this from Knoppix! - its rather good isnt it....

Will tell you how it went in a few hours

Nick

Nick W · l33t Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 684

Well, im not having much luck....

Nick