On 09-10-17 14:35:45, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > 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. He gets some of them, then the test aborts. He needs to fix at least those sectors in order to proceed with the test. > 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. I don't think he uses dd. As all the defective files have been deleted, the command I gave should write all the bad sectors in about the time to do a long test, even bad sectors that haven't been reported yet due to the self-test aborting (though I should have said "rm -f"). -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
