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Just installed slackware 2.0, and fdisk formatted and checked the linux native partition,
looking for bad blocks.  The swap partition did not appear to go through the same process.

Are bad blocks tracked in the swap space by some other mechanism?

thanks, oh knowing ones.

When the Slackware install ran mkswap, the swapspace formatting tool, it
_should_ have added the option to check for bad blocks. If not, all is not
lost. All you need to do is stop swapping to that partition, re-do the
mkswap with the -c option and re-start swapping. If you can't do the
swapoff because you're using space on it (it _should_ refuse if it space
is being used which cannot be reclaimed from the buffer cache) then you
can set up a temporary swap _file_ and  swap off that while you re-build
the swap partition.

   Cheers,
   Bruce.

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