On 8/1/05, Karasik, Vitaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to e2fsck manpage, you should run fsck -cc (man e2fsck) for > marking bad blocks. > I haven't tried this.
That's not low-level format - what it does is to tell the filesystem code how to avoid bad blocks. But if I want to install, e.g. a swap partition or Windows then I might be out of luck, as there is no way to tell them to avoid the bad blocks (that I'm aware of). "low-level format" takes advantage of the driver's capabilities for automatic remapping of bad blocks and just causes the drive to check all the blocks and re-map the bad ones. Once this is done the OS above should see the disk as a clean surface. Thanks, --Amos ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
