From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [204.233.198.50] (helo=linserver.romuald.net.eu.org) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1895dH-0004gc-00 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 10:28:47 -0500 Received: (qmail 7025 invoked by uid 1023); 5 Nov 2002 15:27:55 -0000 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 09:27:55 -0600 From: Gregory Nowak To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: is one of my drives going bye-bye? Message-ID: <20021105152755.GA7013@romuald.net.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi All. I got the following message on the currently open login prompt during the night. EXT3-fs error (device ide2(33,2)): ext3_free_branches: Read failure, inode=196964, block=395195 Does this mean that one of my disk clusters is going bad? How serious is this? Do I need to do anything to mark that cluster as "bad", or does the system do that for me automagically? Most of all in terms of importants, which drive is this on, hda or hde? Thanks for any help in advance. Greg