On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:17:36 -0400, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sadly, you have not fixed any of the bad blocks by deleting the files. > The bad blocks will only be replaced when they are written to. Now > that the files are deleted, you will need to write to all the free > space of the drive to write to the defective blocks. This should do > the trick (as root, or from the Rescue CD): He should be able to get the sector numbers by running long self tests. On the disks I have own, this only gets you one sector per scan rewrite cycle. Also note that linux tools such as dd write 8 sectors at a time and if you try to write less than that, a read will be tried first which will most likely fail because of the bad sector. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
