Jim Conner wrote:
>
> 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.
>
In addtion to this, I've been told that when you start developing
very many bad blocks on a drive it's time to make sure of your backups
and investigate the cost of new drives. The drive may be failing.
It would be a very good idea to re-run badblocks on the drive fairly
often for a while. If you continue to get new badblocks occurring, the
drive _IS_ failing.
rickf
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