2010/1/28 David Rees <drees76@xxxxxxxxx>: > > badblocks <name of partition> > > See the man page for more details, but that should do a read test - > may want to boot from a rescue disk or from another disk if possible > to run the test. The first "badblocks /dev/sda7" run went ahead with no output. Now running "badblocks -nv /dev/sda7" on this unmounted 20gb partition and it's taking a little while for the nondestructive read+write test but so far again no output indicating errors - will post full output shortly. --- Yes, I'd come across this one - ran just the plain command first on hopefully the same disk "areas" which initially had Arch and Fedora partitions which also exhibited the same problem but I blew them away and repartitioned/reformatted as ext4 from my ubuntu installation. I trust (based on the man page) that badblocks re-checks any blocks marked away by formatting (i didnt select the 'check bad blocks' option during formatting via gparted) so the problem is not hidden? -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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
