On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:12:47 -0600 Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am also seeing this on drives that are only a few months old. I > was having system crashes so I wouldn't be surprised about the need > to re-allocate blocks. > > Now the question that I pose is, how do get these blocks > allocated/moved that is safe for data on the drives? What is the > best method to get these blocks allocated? > > Can badblocks be used? > > I have a drive that seems to have some bad sectors, that have been bad since new. It has been flagged for years by various programs, and is still running. I don't trust it with valuable data, but I use it. I used e2fsck with -c -c -k (the double -c tells it to do a non destructive read write test, the -k says to preserve existing bad blocks and add any new ones) on the drive. It seemed to work, at least I didn't lose any data that I could tell and the number of bad sectors has remained stable since. This is very slow as it is reading, writing, and reading every byte on the drive. Of course, the drive has to be umounted as well. The man page for e2fsck has all the options and what they do. Verbose might be advisable as well. Of course, maybe I'm just fooling myself and this is strictly placebo effect. :-) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
