On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 11:41:39 +0200, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 07:57:46 +0000 (UTC), Scott wrote: > > Filesystems (see "man badblocks") and the hard-disk itself protect against > a first bunch of errors that can only be worked around by reallocating/ignoring > sectors. Until the hardware failures become fatal all of a sudden. Hence > an early warning can be helpful. Marking bad blocks in the OS isn't really useful these days. When a modern disk runs out of spare blocks to remap it is way past the time it should have been replaced. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
