Re: Formatting a harddisk with defective sectors

2008-08-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 06:31:09PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > Hi! > > I have an 8 GB harddisk that I want to use in a Intel P1 / 150 MHz > with 128 MB EDO-RAM system. Yes, that's for real. This harddisk has > one defective sector which causes the installation that's already on > this disk to compl

Formatting a harddisk with defective sectors

2008-08-19 Thread Polytropon
Hi! I have an 8 GB harddisk that I want to use in a Intel P1 / 150 MHz with 128 MB EDO-RAM system. Yes, that's for real. This harddisk has one defective sector which causes the installation that's already on this disk to complain about not being able to clean the /home partition via fsck. My ques