Hello,
I have a hard drive that is about to go completely kaput. I actually
got the system installed under the 800M mark, but have all this leftover
space to work with. I used the -c option to get the badblocks marked on
/dev/hda1 which is my / partition and have only swap space left. is
there a way to recover the dead space on the drive using badblocks with
the option that writes them to the file that is used by fsck? if I can
do this what should I call this new partition and what type should it
be? also what is the file called that fsck uses to store the list of
bad blocks? Would it be easierr to just do a fsck -c -l <whatever
file?>
The last thing I need to know is how to find out all the info that
badblocks needs to run. ie. block size and start and end blocke etc.
Thanks for the help.
Ivan Trail
