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Topic: Error while reading block at sector

Hello,

I had this error trying to move an ext3 partition at the beginning of the moving process (sorry I couldn't save details, because I used the livecd and my USB isn't recognized) :

Error while reading block at sector 82198400

I tried several times but I always get this error. What does that mean, and what could I do to repair it?

Thanks in advance

2 Reply by LarryT

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Re: Error while reading block at sector

you should try to run check disk on the partition ....

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Re: Error while reading block at sector

i've only seen this error one time before this and that was in case of a bad cluster on that disk. Maybe you should run 'badblocks' or checkdisk on this partition.

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Re: Error while reading block at sector

Ok, I'll do it later, now I'm not using that computer.

5 Reply by neimad (edited by neimad 2007-01-17 00:50:54)

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Re: Error while reading block at sector

I ran "badblocks /dev/hda" and this is what I got :

#badblocks /dev/hda

40667072
40667076
40667077
40667078
40667079
40667080
40667081
40667082
40667083
40667084
40667085
40667086
40667087
40667088
40667089
40667090
40667091
40667592
40667624
40667625
40667626
40667627
41099488
41099512
41099513
41099514
41099515

So I have bad blocks... What can I do? I would really need to make changes with gparted as i have a lot of space unused on this disk :S Is there a way to tell the system to "ignore" these bad blocks?

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Re: Error while reading block at sector

i guess the best you can is to "dd" your drive to another drive, and then make what you want.
Or try to see how works badblock : surely googling will return many things ...

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