On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Allens wrote: > Hi, > I'm a newbie to linux, and have a question. I know this is a bit off topic in > this group, as it is a linux in general question, but anyway: > How do I get linux to mark bad sectors on my hard drive, as I have a few, and > they are stopping me doing lots of things like running Xwindows etc. fsck > see's > them, but asks me whether I want to ignore them. If I say no it fails on some > of them, saying > can't read next inode while doing inode scan > > Even when I don't ignore them and it works, it doesn't do any good, and I want > to be able to run (and make) programs.... > > Thanks *very* much in advance. > > Peter Allen > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > I think you want to run e2fsck -c fs, also see badblocks. Check the man pages for more details.
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