On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:36:13PM +0100, Petra Ruebe-Pugliese wrote:
> Package: e2fsprogs
> Version: 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.10.02+dfsg-2
> Severity: normal
>
> I usually check my floppy disks using the command
> /sbin/badblocks -v /dev/fd0 1440
> and this used to work fine until my update to
> e2fsprogs 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.10.02+dfsg-2
> yesterday.
>
> Since then I get on _all_ my computers the following behaviour
> when checking an _undamaged_ floppy disk:
This is because we fixed a bug so that badblock works the way it is
documented, which is the 1440 is the _last_ block, not a count. Since
the blocks are counted starting from 0, on a floppy disk the blocks
are counted as 0 to 1399, for a total of 1440 blocks.
- Ted
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