On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:01:55AM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 8/1/05, Karasik, Vitaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > According to e2fsck manpage, you should run fsck -cc (man e2fsck) for > > marking bad blocks. > > I haven't tried this. > > That's not low-level format - what it does is to tell the filesystem code how > to avoid bad blocks. But if I want to install, e.g. a swap partition or > Windows > then I might be out of luck, as there is no way to tell them to avoid the bad > blocks (that I'm aware of).
mkswap also has '-c'. In windows I think that doing a full (not quick) format will also find and mark bad blocks. I would still be interested in an answer to your question. I know (and used) such tools for SCSI disks, not IDE. -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
