files and disk sectors

[Matt Price]

On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 12:05 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:20:39PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:

> > so do i want (293198250+133580538)/8= 53347348 ?  or rather 
> > (293198250-133580538)/8=19952214 ?  at first i thought you meant the
> > former but the latter seems to make more sense, and also groups the bad
> > sector nicely in with my other bad sectors, which is kinda comforting. 
> > currently running debugfs with the latter number, the first number gave
> 
> No you subtract.  If sector 293198250 is the problem, and your partition
> starts at 133580538, then the sector is number 159617712 in the
> partition, and hence block 19952214.  After all sector 159617712 on a
> partition starting with 133580538 would be sector 293198250 from the
> beginning of the disk.
> 

did this, and turns out firefox 3.0's places.sqlite was located on the
bad sector.  deleted it and it regenerated elsewhere on disk -- and lo
and behold, firefox now runs about 50 times faster than before, and my
drive isn't constantly freezing up.  life is _so_ much better than it
was!  thanks,

matt

> > me:
> > 53347348	
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