Re: [TCLUG:16146] Fsck Stuff

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Jonathan Kline wrote:
> 
> Is there something like fsck that does a hardware check on a drive?  For
> example Checking fro bad sectors, disk IO errors, then marks the sectors
> as bad so the OS doesn't try to use them?
>         I'm running linux 2.3.8 with ext2 partitions...

I wish there was..  I seem to have plenty of problems associated with
that (though I'm not sure).  If you have some backup storage or another
hard drive you can save stuff to for a short time, you could try just
using `dd' to write to the whole disk and (hopefully) force the disk to
map the bad sectors.

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