On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > You can force the disk to replace the bad sectors by doing a disk-level write: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=4k NOTE! Obviously don't do this before you've backed up the disk. Depending on the filesystem, you might just have overwritten something important, or just your pr0n collection ;) Jeff, please be a little more careful about telling people commands like that. Some people might cut-and-paste the command without realizing what it's doing as a way to "fix" their problem. Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
