disk repair

[Jonathan Hutchins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duston, Hal [mailto:hdusto01 at sprintspectrum.com]

> Actually, fsck doesn't repair a _disk_, but rather a _filesystem_
 
> If a disk has bad blocks or the like on it fsck does nothing
> about that.  So . . . the question is which needs to be repaired.

If you have an IDE drive reporting bad blocks, it's time to spend another
$40 on a new one.