fsck says "UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY"

[Glenn Dawson]

At 03:49 PM 8/11/2005, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:


>>>THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 66322510,
>>>
>>
>>Sounds like a HW issue to me.
>
>
>Anyway to confirm this? It is not a very old drive and the filesystem
>is still readable,
>I suppose it could have developed some bad sectors..

If you have another machine you can boot from, or another disk, you can 
install the smartmontools port (/usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools) and use 
that to see what the status of the drive is.

-Glenn


>Is there a way to flag them as bad without formating the drive?
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