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From: zot@netcom.com (Ed Spunky)
Subject: hard drive/partition errors?
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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 23:33:46 GMT
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I'm getting the following message whenever my server boots up:

Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (38) >= datablocks (16) in last cylinder
group. This implies 256 sectors cannot be allocated.

So I understand this means that I must have messed up when partitioning the
drive, but this sort of thing wouldn't end up causing the hard drive to
freak out and eventually cause hardware failures, would it? I ask this
because the drive has subsequently started chirping and losing sectors and
the like.

Ed
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