From: siegl@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Kurt Siegl) Subject: Re: Bad blocks (?) on hard disk Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:06:15 GMT
In article <C1HAqs.Lyv@world.std.com>, tgc@world.std.com (Terry Carlin) writes:
> rob@dinner.asrc.albany.edu (Robert D. Seals) writes:
> : Things seems sensible except that bad blocks on the hard disks
> One should: mkfs -c /dev/whatever howbig
This doesn't solve all problems. There are also additional problems
which should be solved somehow in future releases:
If your HD is not that bad mkfs will not mark all bad blocks imediately. There
is no -c option in fsck (efsck has already has this option) and therefore no way to
correct it afterwards.
In case of a bad block on the beginning of the HD you can't generate a swap file,
because while creating that file Linux starts reading from the beginning of the
disk physically and stops as soon it gets a bad block with infinite HD errors.
Because of that problem I can only generate a 2.5MB swap file on my system :-(
Kurt