On Saturday 25 November 2006 20:37, Faraz Shahbazker wrote: > Yes and No. If you're IDE device is doing the internal re-mapping > thingy, badblocks will be none the wiser. If you're getting
agreed but the remapping is inplace for a reason. we needn't worry about badblocks until the disk runs out of reserve blocks. till that time, it would be ok. one more thing he can do is use SMART. I think hdparm has some switch to check the disk health using SMART but its currently available for IDE disks only I dunno about SCSI or SATA ones. > Bottomline: a regular constant set of badblocks is not a problem. But > if you frequently get random and senseless filesystem > inconsistencies, then you're in trouble inspite of a clean chit from > badblocks. Yes, and backups are absolutely necessary to prevent disasters! :( -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
