On 26-Nov-98 Richard Adams wrote:
> According to Cort: While burning my CPU.
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>> You can check for bad blocks on your hard disk using the appropriately named
>> "badblocks" utility. It features a write-read test, but doing such a test
>> will
>> destroy all content on the disk/partition.
>
> h-to-be says he is using "e2fsck -c" which will run "badblocks" automaticly,
> what h-to-he must do is use "e2fsck -p" which will tell e2fsck to repair the
> filesystem if needed.
When running "e2fsck" with the "-c" option, it will run "badblocks" but only
under read only mode. You will need to use the "badblocks" utility directly
under write-read mode to do a proper test for surface defects.
Cort
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