Thanks, these are the commands I was looking for. I'll probably ditch the drive before long, but it will be because it's just too small. And for that, I'm waiting because of money.
++ kevin On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:45:41PM -0500, Jim Conner wrote: > As was suggested by another e-mail, the problem will just get worse, not > better. But if you want to mark bad blocks use the following commands. > > badblocks -o <bad_blocks_file> > fsck -l <bad_blocks_file> > > The best bet is to look at the file generated and see how many bad blocks > there actually are. If you do this, I wouldn't use that partition for any > mission critical stuff due to reliability. > > Jim > > On Friday, May 24, 2002 6:42, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > It's been a very long time since this happened to me, > > but my root partition seems to have come down with a case of > > bad block in the inode table. SCSI drive, too, though > > a bit old (not sure, maybe 7 years; its 4GB). > > > > Fsck indicates the files affected aren't too numerous or > > critical, they are > > /root/.cpan/sources/authors > > /var/webmin/miniserv.pid > > /var/webmin/sessiondb.pag > > /var/webmin/sessiondb.dir > > > > I can live without these, or rebuild them, or reload them. > > Whatever. > > > > I've used 'cp -a' to move my root partition to another drive, > > and things are running happily. Now I would like to reclaim > > that partition. Is there a recommended incantation for getting > > that block into the bad blocks table without formatting the > > whole bloody thing? Should I just try writing on it and > > hope it doesn't sin any more? Should I worry about the > > whole drive going bad? > > > > ++ kevin > > -- > > 9:42pm up 18 days, 11:03, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Running Caldera W3.1 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. -- Kevin O'Gorman (805) 650-6274 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Permanent e-mail forwarder: mailto:Kevin.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] At school: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~kogorman/index.html Web: http://kosmanor.com/~kevin/index.html "Life is short; eat dessert first!" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
