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- From: siegl@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Kurt Siegl)
- Subject: Re: Bad blocks (?) on hard disk
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.090615.1480@alijku05.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
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- Organization: RISC, J.K. University of Linz, Austria
- References: <1993Jan26.190254.3059@sarah.albany.edu> <C1HAqs.Lyv@world.std.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:06:15 GMT
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- In article <C1HAqs.Lyv@world.std.com>, tgc@world.std.com (Terry Carlin) writes:
- > rob@dinner.asrc.albany.edu (Robert D. Seals) writes:
- > : Things seems sensible except that bad blocks on the hard disks
-
- > One should: mkfs -c /dev/whatever howbig
-
- This doesn't solve all problems. There are also additional problems
- which should be solved somehow in future releases:
-
- If your HD is not that bad mkfs will not mark all bad blocks imediately. There
- is no -c option in fsck (efsck has already has this option) and therefore no way to
- correct it afterwards.
-
- In case of a bad block on the beginning of the HD you can't generate a swap file,
- because while creating that file Linux starts reading from the beginning of the
- disk physically and stops as soon it gets a bad block with infinite HD errors.
- Because of that problem I can only generate a 2.5MB swap file on my system :-(
-
- Kurt
-