Creating bad blocks list

Creating bad blocks list

Post by Mikael Nasbe » Tue, 31 Aug 1993 06:04:47



I am having problems with creating a Linux partition on an ESDI
disk that contains bad blocks. I have read the FAQ and know how
to tell mke2fs to use a bad blocks list, but I have lost the
list that came with the disk. Is there any Linux utility that
can do it for me, or does anyone know of a suitable DOS utility?

Thank You in advance,
Mikael Nasberg

 
 
 

Creating bad blocks list

Post by Mikael Nasbe » Tue, 31 Aug 1993 06:09:06


Does anybody know of a good utility to create a bad blocks list
for my ESDI disk. I have lost mine, and want to create an ext2
partition to install SLS 1.03 on. I do have one working partition,
so both Linux and DOS-utilities are OK.

Thank You in advance
Mikael

 
 
 

1. Finding out if there are bad blocks in the bad blocks list

Hi

I'm trying to find out whether there are any bad blocks in the ext2fs
bad block list. I think there might be, because I had a whole lot of
ext2fs error messages popping up during a compile, and when I removed
the directory I was working with and ran e2fsck -cf /dev/hdc6, it told
me the filesystem was modified, even though none of the regular checks
had failed (I'd previously run e2fsck -f /dev/hdc6, so all the duplicate
blocks and unattached inodes and stuff had been sorted out). I think the
drive might still be under warranty, so if there are bad blocks I'll
take it back.

TIA
Bruce
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