file system crash

[Greg Kedrovsky]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 09:20:04PM +0000, Don Erickson wrote:
> 
> It looks suspiciously like a disk going (gone?) bad.  I'd copy your 
> lost+found to a different disk and wade through it later.  There's a 
> good chance that you might not be able to read anything on that disk 
> very soon.

That's what I thought, too. But, I ended up doing a mkfs -t ext3 -c on
the /dev/hdb1. The -c option, if I'm not mistaken, checks for bad
blocks, or errors on the physical disk. mkfs did its thing happily and
nothing turned out negative or problematic. The drive is maybe a year
old, Maxtor 80gig I got a MicroCenter. 

So, I have the partition formated in ext3 again, and I've put some stuff
back on it. I will most certainly be doing daily and weekly back-ups now
(still having problems getting my files organized into logical
directories so I know what's to be back-up, when, etc., but that's OT). 

Is there a better way to check the hdd for physical problems, other
thank the -c option on mkfs? Anything anyone would suggest I do to
double check the drive? 

Thanks.

-Greg

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