From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 23:26:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 23:26:13 -0400 Received: from juicer39.bigpond.com ([139.134.6.96]:3043 "EHLO mailin8.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 23:26:02 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, monkeyiq@users.sourceforge.net Subject: Dying disk and filesystem choice. From: monkeyiq X-Home-Page: http://witme.sourceforge.net Date: 24 May 2001 13:25:51 +1000 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (GTK) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Could I please be CC'd replies. To keep it short and sweet, I have a 45Gb IBM drive that is slowly dying by getting more bad sectors. I have already returned my first one to get the current disk, so would like to use the current one for a while before returning it for another disk that will prolly just start dying again. I am using reiserfs at the moment, which doesn't really like to work on a dying drive. for example, doing a make fails to work even though it is *creating* files on the disk, it fails to do so because it hits new bad sectors and doesn't seem to remap them. I am wondering what advise on filesystem choice the list as and any other options I can use to get the kernel to remap bad blocks. Thanks. -- --------------------------------------------------- It's the question, http://witme.sourceforge.net If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -- Derek Bok, president of Harvard