Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) wrote: > Rony, > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there any software that will do a surface scan and mark bad sectors >> as unusable? >> > > man badblocks > > > Badblocks works well for blank partitions. Using e2fsck with the badblocks option was suggested by the site for ext2 and ext3 partitions. I used the read as well as non-destructive read-write option with e2fsck and found a group of bad blocks on my disk.
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