On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Hi all. > > I have a couple of questions, which I would appreciate answers to please. > > 1. q. Is there a way to check swap partitions for bad blocks, and mark > them as bad? I have a feeling that since they're not ext2/ext3, that > you can't just use e2fsck with the -cc flag. No, e2fsck won't work, unless of course, you turn off swap, (swapoff -a), make that partition as e2fsck and check it. Of course, only do this if you have enough physical ram, but that should do the trick for you, even if it's a bit of a fudge. Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at tjfisher.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
