On Thu, 11 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?
>
> 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.
>
> tia. dan.
>
Dan,
badblocks -w will do a destructive bad block test. If you add the
-o output_file, it will produce a bad block file you can feed to mke2fs
using the -l option to maps them out. You can also use the -c option of
mke2fs to do a read only test.
Mikkel
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