On Wednesday 13 December 2006 01:10, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Tuesday 2006-12-12 at 19:41 +0100, jdd wrote: > > > There is a utility called "badblocks". See it's manpage for > > > usage. It lives in /sbin/ (of course), and is probably already > > > installed. > > > > this is already used by fsck. > > I don't think so. It is run when the filesystem is created by > mkfs, but not by fsck, afaik.
From the badblocks manual, right before the "Options" header: --8<-- For this reason, it is strongly recommended that users not run badblocks directly, but rather use the -c option of the e2fsck and mke2fs programs. --8<-- Cheers, Leen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
