Hi Guys,

I am facing some strange problem,

kernel is 2.4.18-e12smp
system is IA64

While running badblocks command on different partitions we found that
there are several badblocks, The O/P of the command is provided below
for oneof the filesystem.

#badblocks -v -s /dev/sdb1
Checking for bad blocks in read-only mode From block 0 to 10241406

10241392 10241393 10241394 10241395 10241396 10241397 10241398 10241399
10241400 10241401 10241402 10241403 10241404 10241405 done

Pass completed, 14 bad blocks found.



To verify this we tried running the dd command, while dd gives the I/O
error for the blocks, an interesting messages appears in
/var/adm/messages as follows,

#dd bs=1024 skip=10241390 if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/null
dd: reading `/dev/sdb1'
Input/output error
10241392+0 records in
10241392+0 records out

/var/adm/messages O/P
May 24 21:46:58 online kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
May 24 21:46:58 online kernel: 08:11: rw=0, want=10241408,
limit=10241406

The same messages appears with all the 4 partitions i am testing for
badblocks,

All the four partitions report badblock at the end of the partition
only.

Can somebody give some input about this behaviour


Thanks in advance.


sachin