While we are at it, I recommend the ultimate boot CD which has all of the
tools bootable from CD. Check it out here http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
-Simon
> A bit OT, but most drive vendors have drive tests that you can download
> and run, some even run under linux; if not, many can be run from a dos
> boot
> floppy. They can read the S.M.A.R.T. data off the drive, and tell you
> with
> a good degree of certainty whether you have hardware problems or not.
>
> Just because you see hardware errors when using xfs and not when using
> ext3
> doesn't mean that xfs is in any way at fault; drive access patterns could
> be quite
> different between the two.
>
> -Eric
>
>> After getting fed up, I reinstalled "/" as ext3 on /dev/h da
>> (My Maxtor hard drive) and checked
>> for bad sectors this time while installation. /dev/sda(3ware RAID)
>> still has my home directories and has XFS on it.
>> Everything went thru well (as I was expecting) and my
>> redhat is running for now.
>
>
>
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