I think you have to output to a file ("-o" option?) to get a list
of bad blocks. Then feed the file to mkfs.ext2 to mark those
blocks bad during a format.
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Austad, Jay wrote:
> Never used badblocks before, but I ran into a problem last week where I had
> bad blocks on a drive on one of my sun machines, but a disk surface check
> run several times turned up nothing. When accessing certain files I would
> get an I/O error, and a SCSI error that said trouble reading block
> xxxxxxxxxx. I had to replace the drive to fix the problem.
>
> Jay
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Yaron [mailto:jethro at freakzilla.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 11:11 PM
> > To: TCLUG
> > Subject: [TCLUG] badblocks
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running badblocks on my gigantic harddrive (it's been
> > going for over 3
> > hours!)
> >
> > Anyone know offhand if badblocks actually reports bad blocks it finds?
> >
> >
> > -Yaron
> >
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