I think what he wanted to know was if we can detect and mark bad sectors on the hard disk. It is possible with "format" command in Solaris but is there any such thing for Linux?
Regards, Naresh --- Amit Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > fsck can check bad sectors for you > if you want to sync the data just type "sync" > else if you are the tod-phod kind wanting to play > with journaling systems > try XFS it's better than ext3. > > Regards, > Amit > > >From: SIR HITESH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [ilugd]: linux utilities > >Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:59:28 -0800 (PST) > > > >hi > >can some one tell me utilities for linux for > chenking > >out thr bad sectors like the norton utilities for > >windows............ > >hitesh > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free > email! > >http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > > > > ================================================ > >To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with subscribe in > >subject header > >To unsubscribe, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in > >subject header > >Archives are available at > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > > > ================================================= > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin..." > -- Shakespeare > -----------------------Amit Sharma > ------------------ > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN > Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > > ================================================ > To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with subscribe in subject header > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe in subject header > Archives are available at > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > > ================================================= > ===== -- Naresh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
