Op maandag 01-10-2007 om 18:19 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Waldemar Kornewald: > Could an Ubuntu developer please explain what advantages > and disadvantages there might be with badblocks
I'm not an Ubuntu developer, but if 'badblocks' looks for hardware defects, it's mostly useless on most hard disks in use these days. The HDD firmware does internal bad block detection & replacement (using spare blocks on the disk reserved for that purpose). So if you can detect any bad blocks using a software check, it means that your hard disk is almost dead and should be replace ASAP (like, rather today than tomorrow). -- Jan Claeys -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
