[ale] hard drive integrity

[Jim]

On Thursday 08 August 2002 02:42 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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...

Both e2fsck and mke2fs can call another program called badblocks that will 
test the block when you invoke either with the -c option. So, either way, the 
bad blocks will be flagged and not used.

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