On 2022-11-12, Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 9 November 2022 16:53:13 GMT Laurence Perkins wrote: > >> Badblocks doesn't ask to write anything at the end of the run. You >> tell it whether you want a read test, a write-read test or a >> read-write-read-replace test at the beginning. > > Not to labour the point, but 'e2fsck -v -c' runs a read test and at > the end it informs me "... Updating bad block inode", even if it > came across no read errors (0/0/0) and consequently does not prompt > for a fs repair.
That's _e2fsck_ thats doing the writing at the end, not badblocks. The statement was that _badblocks_ doesn't ask to write anything at the end of the run.
