On 19/04/2008, ropers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18/04/2008, Calomel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ropers, > > > > You can find the badblocks utility prepackaged in "e2fsprogs". > > > THANK YOU! :) I had wondered why I couldn't find badblocks among > OpenBSD's packages. This explains it. I will say in my defense ;-) > that badblocks is not ext2-specific, so while I have now seen that > it's part of these tools, possibly for historic reasons, that's not > necessarily a logical place for it to be.
Shame on me. I must be blind. Turns out it says right on the badblocks man page: > AVAILABILITY > badblocks is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from > http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net. Geez, I'm an eejit. Travers Buda wrote: > I don't know if anyone brought this up, and I hate to state the > obvious, but if you're getting bad blocks then the hard drive has > exhausted its ability to deal with them on its own and should be > replaced. Otherwise you'll see data loss/corruption and a higher > probability of a total drive failure. Agreed. I see 3 usage areas for badblocks -svn: - To intermittently proactively check whether my existing HDDs are dying. - To intermittently check if my remaining floppies have still survived. (I keep 2 copies of each floppy and chuck out the ones that have gone bad, and make a new copy, so unless both copies go bad in the same interval, I'm good.) - To check whether any old HDDs that I'm given for free / that I pick up off the kerb / that I pull out of a skip are still usable. And yes, once badblocks complains, it's time to toss the disk. On 19/04/2008, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-04-19, ropers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looking at the package contents ( > > http://www.openbsd.org/4.2_packages/i386/e2fsprogs-1.27p5.tgz-contents.html > > ), I've also figured out how to search for stuff like this in the > > future: > > > > > http://www.google.ie/search?q=badblocks+inurl%3Aopenbsd.org+inurl%3Acontents.html&btnG=Search > > > Alternatively, you can use pkg_mklocatedb(1). Ah! Thanks for that! :) Thanks and regards, --ropers
