Hey Fred,
It's been a while and no replies so I'll say this: badblocks will find
badblocks. However, it is to be used in the context of making a new fs, I
think. So you would need to tar that partition, copy the tar file to
another partition (or tape, etc.), remake the filesystem with mke2fs. But
if you do that, you may as well use the -c or -w flag of mke2fs to directly
map bad sectors. I think this would be easier than "reinstalling
everything" but that's easy for me to say ... I've bought a couple used
drives and what I usually do is download the manufacturers (typically dos)
low-level format program and formatted the disk. I've never had trouble
with bad sectors using this procedure.
Also, I don't know much about IDE hardware but the author of the badblocks
man page seems to indicate that the drive automagically does this already.
If it does, I wasn't aware of this magic.
All that said, I ran out to Best Buy and got a new 13.5 GB EIDE drive a
couple days ago for $120. That's so cheap and easy that I would go get a
new drive right now.
-Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Whipple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 1:08 PM
Subject: How to Fix Corrupt Hard Disk?
: All,
:
: I have a hard disk I'm suspect of.. I think it has developed some bad
: blocks since I installed Linux. Yes, time for a new one, but in the
: mean time is there a way I can mask those bad blocks without
: re-installing everything? I.e., a media verifier that can check a disk
: like Norton Utilities?
:
: Thanks! :)
:
: -Fred
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