On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Vijay Gill wrote:
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
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That'd depend on what FS you are using, I'd ask the EXT3 or XFS mailing
list depending upon which FS you are currently using.
Justin.
