On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 12:09:40PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > It was very useful in the days of 50MB disks without cache (see its > default of 16 for -c). These days disks either work or get replaced. > Bad blocks scanning is essentially a thing of the past.
i beg to differ. just in march i had i/o errors on my 40GB ibm notebook disk. i ran e2fsck -c and 24hours later (the disk is in an usb case and my notebook only does usb1 :-( all the i/o errors were gone. the disk is still doing fine. bad block scanning solved my problem, and i can't think of how else i could have fixed the disk. greetings, martin. -- looking for a job doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.schon.org Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
