On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 20:34:04 -0700 Markus Kesaromous <remotestar@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Sorry I did not clarify - By low level, I do not mean Filesystem > creation. I mean it the level at which bad-block forwarding takes > place (i.e. all blocks are tested for sanity, and the bad blocks are > forwarded to good blocks. This in some cases may result in reduced > total number of blocks, and thus might (emphasis on might) affect the > disk geometry. You could look at man badblocks or man e2fsck They will do read or read and write scan of the disk and mark failed blocks as bad. e2fsck is the better way. Everyone else seems to think your drive is history, though, so maybe this is wasted effort. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
