[ILUG] e2fsck

[Brendan Halpin]

OK,

I've got a bunch of bad blocks showing up lately, and I want to fix
them (temporarily, I reckon, as the disc is probably dying).

Can I do "e2fsck -c /dev/hda" on a running machine? 

Given the following files affected by the problem
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
|find: /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K03rhnsd: Input/output error
|find: /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/S00single: Input/output error
|find: /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K80random: Input/output error
|find: /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K75netfs: Input/output error
|find: /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K90network: Input/output error
|find: /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K10xfs: Input/output error
|find: /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K20isdn: Input/output error
|find: /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K35smb: Input/output error
|find: /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K45arpwatch: Input/output error
|find: /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K25sshd: Input/output error
|find: /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K50xinetd: Input/output error
|find: /initrd: Input/output error
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
will it die before I restore them from backup?

Particularly, what's /initrd? It doesn't seem to be on my other
system.

Brendan

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