On Wed, 10 May 2000, Dan Horth wrote:
> Hi - I was just wondering if there was a "low level format" or
> initialize command / utility I could use to zero a disk. Can anyone
> tell me what utilities are used by the RH install process to do a
> format and check for bad blocks?
>
e2fsck
>
> basically I have a disk that I know has bad blocks on it and I want
> to reinitialize it and get the bad blocks masked / ignored / whatever
> so they're not used.
>
If it's scsi, just low-level it using the SCSI utils.
Otherwise, it's my understanding that IDE drives are NOT
supposed to be low-leveled. I suggest you "man e2fsck" and
see if that'll do it. Just a reminder, though, that it
won't run on a mounted file system, so be sure to unmount
that drive before trying to run e2fsck.
John
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