Is this hdd toast???

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> My main server here at the SOHO developed a problem about 2am. Some cron
> jobs were reporting i/o errors and several hung. I'm doing fsck -t ext3
> /dev/hdd1. It has, so far, come up with maybe 150 of these:
>
> -----------
> Error reading block 1632178 (Attempt to read block from filesystem
> resulted in short read) while reading indirect blocks of inode 803514.
> Ignore error<y>? yes
>
> Force rewrite<y>? yes
>
> Inode 803514, i_blocks is 312, should be 104. Fix<y>? yes
> -----------
>
> I took the default answers (yes). Is this hard drive dying, or did some
> errant process just trounce all over the fs?

If you run fsck again manually, does it finish cleanly?  Looking in your
messages log do you see any other errors or problems in the days prior to
this problem?

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