[Lvlug] Detecting new bad blocks on a disk while a system is running?

[Theerasak Photha]

On 12/23/06, Brian Reichert <rignes at pobox.com> wrote:
> * Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs-lvlug at lists.manxome.org> [2006-12-23 18:11:30-0500]
> > * Mark <mstanley at technologist.com> [2006-12-23T09:09:21]
> > > On Friday 22 December 2006 19:48, Brian Reichert wrote:
> > > > I had one experience where I simply rebooted and my root partition was
> > > > corrupted to the point where it wouldn't boot.  I was forced to rebuild the
> > > > tree and hope for the best.  Luckily for me it recovered fine and I've been
> > >
> > > I've had a similar experience but it was so long ago that I decided not to
> > > let it bother me. At least not much more than a tiny little memory hovering
> > > in the background.
> >
> > Unfortunately, when this happens to a colocated server after an unscheduled
> > reboot, the memory tends to be sort of traumatic and hateful.
>
> It sounds to me like that happened to you at some point?

It happened to me once, but I'm just glad I didn't lose much data (a
few random files and a song that I really liked).