3 Sep
2008
3 Sep
'08
5:52 p.m.
Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) wrote:
Rony,
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
Is there any software that will do a surface scan and mark bad sectors as unusable?
man badblocks
Badblocks works well for blank partitions. Using e2fsck with the badblocks option was suggested by the site for ext2 and ext3 partitions. I used the read as well as non-destructive read-write option with e2fsck and found a group of bad blocks on my disk.
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