[linux-help] HD trouble

[Nathan <ncozzens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Here's a posting that describes almost exactly what I 
was dealing with.  It says it's "highly deadly" if you 
follow the thread.
http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0103.3/0969.html

I ended up going to runlevel 1, unmounting hda3 & hda4 
(the ones that were having the trouble), and running 
"e2fsck -cv".  I'm assuming/hoping this will store the 
bad blocks so the file system won't use them anymore.

Here's another URL I found that talks about bad blocks 
more in-depth.
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue37/tag/39.html
When I installed Debian, I skipped the badblock 
scan....evidently a bad move.  Now I'm just wondering 
if I should be concerned about my HD.  I'm still 
thinking about that strange whistle it let out when 
this all started.

Does anyone know how I can "refresh" my 
installation?  I want to be sure everything is still 
good to go.  There were some files partially stored in 
bad blocks.  I don't know if they were recovered.

Thanks,
Nate

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