Al Grant
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:22:46 -0800
andrew zajac-2 wrote: > > Your drive is made up of 512 byte blocks. Your NTFS filesystem probably > is made up of 4096 byte blocks. > > Hypothetically, if badblocks tells you that the tenth block is bad, that > is not the same as the tenth block in the NTFS filesystem. It would > actually fall in the second 4096-byte NTFS block since 4096/512=8. > So, lemme check if I got this clear. A drive has a block size on a physical level (512) and on a logical, or file system level. In the case of NFS 4096? I understand blocks at present only in terms of disk geometry in that thye are theintersection of a cylander and a sector. Cheers -Al -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/badblocks---what-data-tp26357276p26368231.html Sent from the Gnu - ddrescue mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list Bug-ddrescue@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue