On Sat, 2019-10-19 at 10:29 +0000, George R Goffe via users wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 2TB HDD with a possibly major problem. I have cleared the > data from it and have tried to run "mke2fs -t ext4 -j /dev/sdc1" but > after 24 hours it had just finished the 0xaa phase and started > reading when the drive seemingly dropped ready and was re-assigned as > a new device to /dev/sdf. Argh. I did get an ended message with an > ending block number. I'd like to restart at that point in time and > continue the media check. I don't see anything in the mke2fs man page > though. > > Has anyone seen or heard of a way to do this?
mkfs -c just runs badblocks with the appropriate parameters. You can specify how many blocks to skip, for example badblocks /dev/sdc1 1234. You'll need to specify the block size correctly to badblocks, and you'll want badblocks -o /tmp/blocklist to save the bad blocks so mkfs -l /tmp/blocklist reads it back. To get the block size, format it without -c and look at the output or use dumpe2fs. Doing this over a USB2 cable took me two weeks last time I tried, for a 4TB drive. I hope it's faster for you. (related note: I find normal 2 and 4TB USB drives highly unreliable.) _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
