Yes, run the badblocks command. If there is no important data on it, do this: 799] What is the best way to verify a hard drive has no bad blocks? /usr/bin/time badblocks -b 512 -s -v -w /dev/hdg Justin.
Sorry I must have mentioned that I did badblocks also, I got the sector/block number also which was bad. Now how do I get that bad sector/block marked as bad in the file system also so that the OS does not try to allocate it for data in the future. Vijay
