Hard drive problem

[Bill Marcum]

On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 00:10:53 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu 
  <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> The HD was in problem and I ran
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
>
> to correct it.  Now it becomes
>
What was the problem that led you to do this?  Have you tried running 
badblocks or smartctl on the HD?

> # fdisk -l
> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 4002702954 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track. 77557 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1          98      499360+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda2              14         778     39039336  8e  Linux LVM
>
> I can't create LV on it.
>
What commands do you use and what errors do you get?



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