Jan Claeys wrote: > I'm not an Ubuntu developer, but if 'badblocks' looks for hardware > defects, it's mostly useless on most hard disks in use these days. The > HDD firmware does internal bad block detection & replacement (using > spare blocks on the disk reserved for that purpose). So if you can > detect any bad blocks using a software check, it means that your hard > disk is almost dead and should be replace ASAP (like, rather today than > tomorrow).
It can only remap the block on a write, not a read, but yea, smartmontools is a better method to monitor for defects. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
