chuck gelm net wrote: > Try: > > badblocks -v -n /dev/hdb1 > I tried, but it asked me a random patern, I don't know what to do, neither how to leave... Moreover, man documentation explein it's longer with -n option... - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html