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- From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Bad blocks (?) on hard disk
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.200529.20973@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:05:29 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.190254.3059@sarah.albany.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan26.190254.3059@sarah.albany.edu> rob@dinner.asrc.albany.edu (Robert D. Seals) writes:
- >Hello,
- >I just got sls from tsx-11 today, and prepared things and dove
- >in to install on my hard disks.
- >
- >Things seems sensible except that bad blocks on the hard disks
- >aren't mapped to a forwarding area. This makes installation nearly
- >impossible, since my disks have many bad blocks. Is there
- >an 'fsck' on the a1/a2 disks that can locate and deal with bad
- >blocks so that I may proceed with installation? If not,
- >what am I supposa do?
- >
- mkfs -c checks and marks bad blocks
-
- marc
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