On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:49:39PM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > fsck will test your disk for bad blocks and allow you to map them out. > > Really? Which option in fsck? fsck is normally used to check and > repair file systems, and this isn't a file system issue. e2fsck -c And it is a file system issue, because the file system needs to note which blocks are bad so it doesn't try to reuse them, and if the bad blocks are unreadable, fsck may need to clean up any resulting errors. Michael Young -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
