[ILUG] Is this the end?

[Niall O Broin]

On 27 Jan 2007, at 03:00, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> When I boot, my laptop tells me:
> "Buffer I/O error on device hda3, logical block 1775552"
> with the same message about logical blocks 177553,4,5
> as well as logical blocks 0 and 1.
>
> e2fsck will not run:
> ----------------------------------------------------
> [tim at martha ~]$ sudo e2fsck -c /dev/hda3
> e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
> e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short  
> read while
> trying to open /dev/hda3
> Could this be a zero-length partition?
> ----------------------------------------------------
> [tim at martha ~]$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 7919 MB, 7919493120 bytes
> 15 heads, 63 sectors/track, 16368 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 = 483840 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1               1       12402     5859913+   c  W95 FAT32  
> (LBA)
> /dev/hda2           12403       12610       98280   83  Linux
> /dev/hda3           12611       16368     1775655    c  W95 FAT32  
> (LBA)
> ----------------------------------------------------
> while badblocks seems to list all the blocks as bad.

I think it's time for the disk to be buried^Wrecycled with full  
military honours. It's an 8GB disk so it's not new, and it's just  
past it, I'm afraid. How are your backups?


Niall