[xubuntu-users] harddisk failure, or Xubuntu refuses to load

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Joshua O'Leary
<joshua.oleary at btinternet.com> wrote:
> From comparing the sector error to the partition table, the problem seems to
> be with this partition:
>
> /dev/sda6       187607133   240862544    26627706   83  Linux
> Not sure whether this is the rootfs or your home partition, you would need
> to get the UUID of this partition, and compare it to /etc/fstab.
>
Yes, I also think so. This partition is /. Next I was planning to run
e2fsck -c /dev/sda6

from a GParted LiveUSB on the unmounted drive so as to include a check
for 'badblocks' in the FS check. This would allow the FS to mark these
sectors as 'bad' and avoid them in the future. Does this sound like a
good idea?

Moreover, it bugs me not to know _why_ changing the disk operating
mode from 'enhanced' to 'compatible' made the FS ignore the bad blocks
and allow Linux to boot up properly. Any ideas why this helped?

Regards
Liviu