Re: [Cooker] Possible HD problems...

[Pixel]

Digital Wokan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I think my Cooker install is crashing on me due to bad sectors on my
> drive, but I have no idea how to find out if my drive has been going
> bad.  Under Windows I had utilities to show me bad blocks.  I'm about to
> retry the Cooker install and have it check for bad blocks during the
> format.  How do I find out afterward if it found any?

if you format in  ext2 or ext3, it should be "dumpe2fs -b /dev/the_device"