Disk Error - DUMP output.

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Sat May 26 19:29:18 UTC 2007


"Grant Peel" <gpeel at thenetnow.com> writes:

> Is there any way to figure out the files that are not being read using the DUMP error output below?
>
>   DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1g: Input/output error: [block 42718592]: count=8192
>   DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1g: Input/output error: [sector 42718594]: count=512
>   DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1g: Input/output error: [block 42671366]: count=5120
>   DUMP: read error from /dev/da0s1g: Input/output error: [sector 42671371]: count=512

I had such a problem just last night.  I tracked it down by copying
directory trees within the filesystem to /dev/null until one failed.
Then I repeated the process one directory level down, narrowing down
the problem.  [It turned out to be my wife's incoming mail spool...]


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