On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 07:50:46AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > I'd like to check and mark the bad sectors, but I don't know how to do
> > that. The reiserfsck program does not seem to do such a thing, so I'm
> > asking you what does.
>
> AFAIK with ext2fs partitions, you first do a block-level read test with
> the "badblocks" utility. Then you feed the values 'badblocks' returns
> to 'e2fsck -l badblocks_file'. I don't know if reiserfs' check utility
> supports those files.
From my experience, the bad block marking is a technique that modern disks
completly obsolete. most modern disk have their own internal block checking
On their shipped controller, and you cannot reach this feature, thus the
disk is presented to you as free of any bad block.
A damaged disk generally turns out to get slow because of rellocating data
when such bad blocks are found numerously.
Most of the time, trying to find am exploitable area on such a disk fails
because running concurently an external and internal bad block seeking
obviously cannot work...
Was this disk used at a proper temperature ? most of crushed disks I had
were due to this ?
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