[linux-help] Re: disk surface problems?

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It may be good to note that badblocks is not fool-proof.  If you have a HD
error that only surfaces occasionally (no pun intended), badblocks may not
find it.

I had a situation, once where I had several HDs in one system... they didn't
get enough power all the time.  Sometimes they would work fine, other times
they would give all sorts of errors.  When I ran badblocks, it *always* gave
me a list of different bad blocks... :-)

Anyway... moral of the story is... don't always trust diagnostic software.

But, if badblocks didn't find any errors, you're *probably* safe to assume
your problem lies elsewhere.


On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 10:19:32AM -0600, j m wagle wrote:
> thank you everybody. the commands all worked, so far i have not
> found any bad sectors.. I'll just wait till xwindows 'crashes' again
> and look for another hardware problem.  
> 
> i appreciate everybody's help!
> mike in wichita.
> 
> Jeff wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, j m wagle wrote:
> > 
> > > but HOW can I tell what the swap device is?
> > 
> > cat /etc/fstab and/or 'fdisk' (then 'p'rint out the partitions)
> > 
> > -jeff
> 
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