Re: How to mark bad blocks without formatting

2002-10-21 Thread nate
J.S.Sahambi said: > On my machine I have a 40 GB hard disk. I executed badblocks command on > one (/dev/hda8) of the partitions and it found two bad blocks. > > How do I know if these blocks have been used by any file or not? > > And how to mark these bad blocks without formatting the partition so

How to mark bad blocks without formatting

2002-10-21 Thread J.S.Sahambi
On my machine I have a 40 GB hard disk. I executed badblocks command on one (/dev/hda8) of the partitions and it found two bad blocks. How do I know if these blocks have been used by any file or not? And how to mark these bad blocks without formatting the partition so that they are not used by