Hello,
Sorry for answering late; I somehow did not receive your reply
and only looked it up in the BTS just now.
On Tue. Nov. 07 2006 at 10:20 Theodore Tso ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:36:13PM +0100, Petra Ruebe-Pugliese wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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
Thanks for the explanation.
I now realized that it seems to be simplest and safest just to say
/sbin/badblocks -v /dev/fd0
and using the default. That solves the problem.
Greetings from Berlin
Petra
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