On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Devlin Daley wrote: > Is the hard drive toast if bad blocks are found? I thought that the > hard drive could keep track of bad sectors and just not write anything > to them, if so, how it is instructed to do so?
Bad blocks would be marked as such at the filesystem level when you
ran e2fsck -c, and those blocks would then never be accessed.
Mike
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