I've been told that this works. Haven't used it. Please read appropriate
man pages. YMMV. You will need to add the correct /dev/hd?? to have it use
the correct drive/partition. Read the man pages for any other possible
missing options.
Step 1: badblocks -o bad_blocks_file
Step 2: e2fsck -l bad_blocks_file
Note: the -l is a lower case L, doesn't show up nicely in some fonts.
Jim
On Thursday July 26, 2001 1:49 am, Auyeung at Technet Systems wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
>
> My harddisk running RH7.0 is developing bad sectors.
> What is the name of program that will run a surface scan on
> a Linux system?
> I man fsck and it seems that fsck is not the answer?
>
> TIA
> Auyeung
>
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