Today, Matt Herbert gleaned this insight:
>
> Anybody know how one would check a disk for bad blocks in linux?
> I think one of my hard drives is going bad, but fsck returns an
> all clean on it. The problem I am having is trying to copy a
> largish (90 meg) file. About half way through (always at the same
> spot) the cp dies with an "Input/Output" error. I've tried copying
> it to different disks, so I know its not the destination disk.
> Any clues?
mkfs -c will do it, but only if you want to lose all your data...
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