On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM home user via users <[email protected]> wrote: > If a block goes bad in a partition, does that permanently reduce the > partition's space, or does the operating system (or drive) somehow > compensate?
Modern disk drives and SSDs usually have extra blocks that are used to re-map bad blocks as they are detected. As long as there are still blocks to perform the re-mapping you don't lose space. Once those blocks are consumed I believe there are ways to manually tell the file system that there are bad blocks and yes, that would then permanently reduce the space. FWIW I have never had to deal with any of the above. In my experience spinning drives fail before bad blocks become an issue. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
