> Depending on the type of drive error, the act of writing is likely to > clean the questionable sector and leave you with a perfectly fine disk. >
Definitely - and in fact some of the other Linux tools already know about this and do it (for example ext3 fsck will force rewrite bad blocks if you want). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

