Can fdisk or mkfs badify blocks? I just low-level formatted my hard drive and one of the first things I did after setting up partitions and creating the ext3 filesystems (and installing fedora) was do a badblocks check. There are 12 bad blocks. fdisk shows they are the three last blocks on each of four partitions.
# echo /dev/hda1-8 && badblocks /dev/hda1-8 /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 15727632 15727633 15727634 /dev/hda5 15727600 15727601 15727602 /dev/hda6 15727600 15727601 15727602 /dev/hda7 15727600 15727601 15727602 /dev/hda8 # fdisk /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120000000000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14589 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 16 128488+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 17 408 3148740 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 409 2366 15727635 83 Linux /dev/hda4 2367 14589 98181247+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 2367 4324 15727603+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 4325 6282 15727603+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 6283 8240 15727603+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 8241 14589 50998311 83 Linux This is the third time I have seen this peculiar badblocks tagging. It's also the third time I checked for bad blocks. Is mkfs unwittingly damaging these penultimate blocks? Could this be a badblocks bug? Or the fault of a proprietary abstraction layer in the harddrive box that is doing notty things? Justin _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
