From: jars@carson.u.washington.edu (Juan Rodriguez-Sero) Subject: Re: [Q] Marking an area as bad Date: 25 Apr 1993 03:51:58 GMT
In article <29543@galaxy.ucr.edu> drdrums@csld.ucr.edu writes:
>In article <968@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca> pmkierst@flash.LakeheadU.Ca
>writes:
>>
>> I have recently gained a bad sector or four on one of my partitions, it
>>seems. Luckily, it was in the temp partition. For now, it is just
>>unmounted, but can anybody tell me how to go about tracking down and
>>marking the sectors as bad under Linux Right now, it is a minix partition,
>>but that could be changed, of course.
>>
>I believe that the mkfs(and its mke2fs counterpart) will locate the
>offending sectors when used with the -c option(don't take my word,
>check the man page first, but I believe that it is correct). Just be
>sure to save any important data before remaking the file system.
I thought the intended meaning was: "Can anybody tell how to go about track-
ing down and marking the sectors as bad under Linux WITHOUT HAVING TO REMAKE
THE WHOLE PARTITION."
Remaking the partition is, of course, possible; but marking bad sectors as
bad without having to go to such trouble would be really interesting. I
would be very interested myself in that.
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