[ale] hard drive integrity

[Geoffrey]

Jim wrote:
> Uhh...that's exactly what happens when you run e2fsck with the -c option. 
> Check the man page if you don't believe me.

Let me make sure we understand each other.  So it finds 10 blocks bad, 
marks them bad and finishes the format?  If this is the case, I was not 
aware that mkfs did this, I thought it just noted the bad blocks for 
reference.  Come to think of it, that's kinda stupid...

> 
> On Thursday 08 August 2002 02:23 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Thanks for the info, I'll check it out.  Next, I thought there was a way
>>to mark sections of a disk bad in order to use the 'good' portion of the
>>disk.  Anyone know about this possibility?
>>
>>Danny Cox wrote:
>>
>>>Geoffrey,
>>>
>>>On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 10:41, Geoffrey wrote:
>>>
>>>>anyone know of any tools that can verify the integrity of a hard drive?
>>>> I know you can check for bad blocks via mkfs, but I'm curious if
>>>>anyone knows of any other linux based tools.
>>>>
>>>	mkfs calls badblocks, which has a man page.  You can specify read-only,
>>>destructive-write, or non-destructive-read-write modes.  Notice the
>>>warning if you're gonna want to use it's output with e2fsck later,
>>>though.
>>>
>>>	Start it, and stand well back ;-)
>>>
> 
> 


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