[plug] Bad sectors on IDE disk

[Leon Blackwell]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:43:49AM +0800, Derek Fountain wrote:
> Are there any tools which will allow me to mark the bad sectors so
> they don't get used? (I know which they are because a tool from the
> manufacturer tells me.)

Have a look at badblocks and e2fsck -- they should be able to find and
mark the bad blocks for you (assuming you're running ext2 or ext3).


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