No expert on this, but I believe you need to feed the output file into
either mke2fs (for a new file system) or tune2fs
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnshaw, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 11 January 2001 11:17 AM
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> Subject: [SLUG] BadBlocks
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>
> Luggers,
>
> If you execute the bad blocks program in rw mode and get it
> to spit out
> =
> a file of those blocks, does the OS also keep track and not write to =
> them? I have an ext2 fs on a big SCSI that has some bad
> blocks but for =
> some reason after the initial install the OS still tried to
> write to it.
>
> Is there another way to tell the OS not to use a portion of the disk?
>
> MTIA
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