On Tuesday 15 July 2008 19:08, Ben Scott wrote:
> Run a destructive write test on the disk. (WARNING: This will
> *DESTROY ALL DATA* on the disk.) Boot a working rescue/install CD
> and get a shell prompt, and then run "badblocks -s -v -w /dev/foo",
> where "foo" is the name of the whole-disk device ("hda", "sda",
> whatever). (WARNING: This will *DESTROY ALL DATA* on the disk.)
Curious. Why not use the non-destructive badblocks write option -n?
Jim Kuzdrall
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