[ale] help, what the #$@! is wrong, badblocks command

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

I was using this command recently to test a hard drive from a live CD of Ubuntu 11.10.

sudo badblocks -nsv /dev/sda3

When some storms came up, I terminated with CTRL-C. It said it stopped at block 48791295. I want to restart with the following:

sudo badblocks -nsv /dev/sda3 first-block 48791295

It says invalid last-block first-block. What's the problem?

Any help is appreciated, as always.

Sincerely,

Ron


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