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jalu

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Registered: 2009-04-05

Posts: 140

fsck: Force rewrite. What does it mean?

Hey all,

I'm running fsck on a drive, but I'm having trouble understanding (or finding documentation on) the messages fsck reports.

Basically, running fsck -y /dev/sdc1 produces messages like this...

Error reading block 99456 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) while getting next inode from scan.  Ignore error? yes

Force rewrite? yes

Error reading block 99457 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) while getting next inode from scan.  Ignore error? yes

Force rewrite? yes

What is a "short read"? What is "Force rewrite" all about? I've tried running fsck -cy, but that causes fsck to hang at 0.00% when scanning for bad blocks...

Any insight, or even a link in the right direction, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

cybertorture

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Registered: 2010-05-05

Posts: 339

Re: fsck: Force rewrite. What does it mean?

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Fsck
that is what i find, i don't realy understand that well but .... i did not like "hardware fail" part
hope that ll give u a clue

anyway good luck and best wishes to solve your problem

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jalu

Member

Registered: 2009-04-05

Posts: 140

Re: fsck: Force rewrite. What does it mean?

Thanks for the info, cybertorture. The article doesn't explain very much, it's a great start.

As it happens, shortly after I wrote the original post my hard drive started clicking (I guess that's what the note abuot "hardware failure" was getting at). Thankfully, I didn't have any data on the drive when it crashed.

If anyone has any more info about this, please feel free to post. I'm going to keep an eye on this thread for the future. Thanks!