Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some drives can, in fact do bad sector remapping on the fly.
By some drives, you mean "all drives sold in the last 10 years", right? > However, manually finding bad blocks on a drive is no real cause for > concern. When a bad sector is found, it should be marked as such > and the FS should not use it afterwards. Right... that'll work for now. But what will happen when the next block goes bad? You'll lose some data, rerun e2fsck -c, and wait for it to happen again, which it will, because the drive will only get worse. It's possible that the drive's remap area might get filled up early, but then go for a long time before causing significant annoyance, but in my experience, once a drive starts to show bad sectors, it's time to order a new drive. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. "The Lion King is...really an adult-cartoon movie..." -CHUM FM 30. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
