[plug] Bad sectors on IDE disk

[James Devenish]

In message <200308041043.49960.derekfountain at yahoo.co.uk>
on Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:43:49AM +0800, Derek Fountain wrote:
> Are any of the Linux filesystems especially tolerant of bad sector problems? 

Four letters: R A I...er... ;)

UNIX filesystems usually have at least a 'bad blocks inode'. Are you
going to reformat the drive or do you want to continue using your
current files? Perhaps have a look at the man pages for your current
filesystem to find out how to add blocks to the bad block inode.