[PLUG] short read while reading block 516

[Andrew Munkres]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Dirk Ouellette wrote:

> Repair filesystem1:
> [ to which I type ] fsck -y /dev/hda1/data1
                                       ^^^^^^
This looks wrong to me, because /dev/hda1 isn't a directory (unless
you're using a non-traditional /dev, e.g. devfs or udev). The manpage
says:
	filesys  can  be  a device name (e.g.  /dev/hdc1, /dev/sdb2), a
	mount point (e.g.  /, /usr, /home), or an ext2 label or UUID specifier
	(e.g.   UUID=8868abf6-88c5-4a83-98b8-bfc24057f7bd or LABEL=root).

So, I think that what you were trying to do was "fsck -y /dev/hda1".

_HOWEVER_, I'm afraid that the "short read" error might indicate that the
disk drive is failing, so running fsck might not be the best thing to do.