According to Cort: While burning my CPU.
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> On 26-Nov-98 Richard Adams wrote:
> > According to Cort: While burning my CPU.
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> <snip>
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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.
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> > 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.
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> 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.
Which is the way badblocks should be run, "read only" unless the data on the
partition is not important, using the "-w" option "will erase data".
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> Cort
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Regards Richard.
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