Bypassing Read Error

Hi All,


I am running Red Hat 9.0. I have 2 250GB drives in my box. I use
Ghost 8.0 to image the drive each week to back it up.

At any rate, a few weeks ago I tried imaging the drive and I received
some "Read Sector Error" on a specific directory. I've removed and
re-created this direcotry, and it still gives me an error on that
directory.

I am not real good with Linux, so I would like to ask for some simple
advice. I know that this may be a sign of the drive going bad. The
drive is only 6 months old.

Like in Windows, can I scan the drive and mark this small area as bad
so it is not used anymore? If so, how can I do this? I do not want
to have to re-install and re-configure everything all over again.....

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Arthur

amerar@iwc.net schrieb:

> Hi All,
>
>
> I am running Red Hat 9.0. I have 2 250GB drives in my box. I use
> Ghost 8.0 to image the drive each week to back it up.
>
> At any rate, a few weeks ago I tried imaging the drive and I received
> some "Read Sector Error" on a specific directory. I've removed and
> re-created this direcotry, and it still gives me an error on that
> directory.
>
> I am not real good with Linux, so I would like to ask for some simple
> advice. I know that this may be a sign of the drive going bad. The
> drive is only 6 months old.
>
> Like in Windows, can I scan the drive and mark this small area as bad
> so it is not used anymore? If so, how can I do this? I do not want
> to have to re-install and re-configure everything all over again.....
>
You can get a list of bad blocks in your file from the "badblocks" program
and pass it to "e2fsck" or "reiserfsck" etc. to add these blocks to the
list of blocks not to use.

Read the manpages of these programs carefully, as doing something from may
corrupt your entire data. For the same reason, make a backup of all the
data on the disk.

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Jan