-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 2 Mar 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote:
> I have a hard disk that had gained a couple of bad blocks recently. > > Linux (Debian 1.3.1) is having problems dealing with them > > "kernel panic ..." > > what can I do to mark the bad block in Linux? Try "e2fsck -c" on the root partition, using the rescue disk. - From the e2fsck man page: -c This option causes e2fsck to run the badblocks(8) program to find any blocks which are bad on the filesystem, and then marks them as bad by adding them to the bad block inode. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNQAktCqK7IlOjMLFAQF3uQP7BIbc7aDxuvXkmjVfBLInoMY71rOwXKKm Ox52PpxbkZPB04y7MyQ5pR9Zj2f5YHq1SPdgFKjYX3rMsaS0WyM2AgTzDLXtNkFT t7YzT46VmOOR90HRASEYv9Tgdpp4O7WBRRgmNaUxKx6AqxhBwTGnE0alYepwMRc8 KpIMgpPGGyQ= =3zoZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .