On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 08:36:51 -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote:
Gotta replace the disk. Modern hard disks mark bad sectors internally, and remaps requests to "spare" sectors. Only when a disk runs out of spare sectors will it report any sectors as "bad".
So, if you're getting bad sector errors, this means the disk has seriously degraded, and it's time to replace it.
XFS is a good thing to move to once you're at it- much less disk trashing, better performance than ext2 and ext3, and very stable. Not as quick as ReiserFS at accessing small files but more stable than all other filesystems. I'm running it on all my machines, never had any trouble. Even on a notebook that often gets a mistreatment ;-)
Gabriel Wicke