Bad superblock, but can access partition in other OS...

fedoralinuxjunkie · 10-20-2009, 12:09 AM

Hey, I have a Seagate 500GB hard drive that has a bad sector on it, and everytime I try to boot Arch, it fails to boot due to that. I have Arch installed on a separate hard drive, but I need the Seagate because that's my /home partition. Does anyone know a way that I can get around this, so I can at least use the hard drive until I can replace it? Thanks

~sHyLoCk~ · 10-20-2009, 03:03 AM

Did you fsck that partition?

fedoralinuxjunkie · 10-20-2009, 11:07 AM

That's what it's doing...When I boot Arch, it runs fsck, and it fails on the 500GB drive, but I know it's a bad sector because when I had Fedora on this machine, it told me through the Disk Monitoring program...so fsck always fails with that, even sidux did the same thing, and that's why I dumped it (well, that and my wireless card wouldn't work with it)

~sHyLoCk~ · 10-20-2009, 11:36 AM

Can't you backup your data in that hard drive to someplace safe and then do a full format with "check for bad sectors" enabled. Else you can put 0 0 in /etc/fstab against the /home partition to prevent it from being checked. Not really a great solution, but oh well.
Something like:

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/dev/sdb1 /home ext4 defaults 0 0

fedoralinuxjunkie · 10-21-2009, 11:54 AM

Thanks, the /etc/fstab editing tip worked like a charm