hi

I made a mistake and moved off reiserfs to ext3 and got some speed improvements.

then I got bad superblock errors.

I have read and tried e2fsck -yvf /dev/sda2 (my bad partition) and this was done or appeared to have been done using a live cd.

But I redid the command and it showed the same result. I booted into the hard drive system...Mandriva 2006 and it halted for another round of e2fsck.

(2) so i thought, lets trick it. So I re-installed Mandriva with XFS but e2fsck came up???

(3) so i thought maybe its the count that matters lets trick it with a new partition table and hopefully sda2 starting at a new area might have fresh blocks etc

result fail for both xfs and ext3

(4) so I thought lets try a live cd install to hard drive with ext3 check for bad blocks b4 install using mepis 3.4.

initially this looked ok.

After a few reboots bad superblocks again.

(5) by now I am thinking groan is my sata drive failing after only 8 months?

so b4 I replace it some questions if you have the time

question 1...can I get a magnet and 'wipe' the drive and start again?

question 2....does a new file system format wipe the old superblocks info? and if so do I have a format failure?

question 3 would changing to a vanilla kernel that had no ext2 or 3 support....I would build it as a xfs kernel be a possible solution?


question 4 What have I missed?

thanks for any time or experience you may share

ok....oops....I had added a new flash drive to my etc/fstab file and umm messed up my root partition as Mandriva ties the fstab to some /etc/hal/ file which I deleted....it then messed up and I did not spot the error until I went to edit and add my flash to a rebuild.

must stop drinking that aussie beer soon.