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Gregory SACRE wrote: |
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> Other question about my problem: is it possible that it would be |
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> a sector problem, and that those sectors would contain the |
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> journaling of ext3? |
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Yes, it looks like it. :( |
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> And that would be the reason why I can mount |
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> it as ext2 and not ext3? |
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No. An ext3 filesystem can always be mounted as ext2: it then |
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simply ignores the journal. |
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> And therefore, do I need to perform a low level format in order |
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> to bring everything as new? |
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No. If it's really a sector problem, throw the disk away: as soon |
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as a disk starts having trouble reading sectors, it is near death. |
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Have you tried putting the disk back into the old machine? If the |
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error occurs there too, the disk got damaged during the transition. |
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If not, then Red Hat maybe uses some specially tweaked ext3 format? |
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Did you do though what the very first error message told you to try: |
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'dmesg | tail'? Also look in /var/log/messages. Are there any |
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lines about errors while accessing /dev/hdd? |
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Benno |
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