Use the badblock(8) program. The mkfs(8) program is essentially analogous
to the format utilities.
Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
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>
>
> I've got a disk with some bad spots. fsck and mkfs don't seem to find them.
> Does anyone know how to say "format" to linux ? I want to wip this thing cle
> an
> and unmap all the bad spots.
>
>
> TIA
>
> TomR
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