on Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:29:07PM +0200, Enrico Zini (zinie@cs.unibo.it) wrote: > Hello! > > Using badblocks I've found some bad blocks on one of my hard disks, and > I'd like to mark them bad so that Linux will avoid to use them. > > The number of bad blocks I've found is low, but they are scattered on many > disk partitions: some of them are formatted ext2, some reiserfs and one is > used as swap. > > For the ext2 partition the problem is easily solved, since e2fsck has the > -l switch to be used exactly for that purpose. The problem are reiserfs > and the swap partition. > > The swap partition could be solved, too, by running mkswap with the -c > option. The only problem with that is that I'll have to wait for another > full badblock check, and since I already have the bad block list, I'd like > to just pass that list to mkswap to make it quicker. If there isn't any > way of doing it, I'll use mkswap -c and be fine. > > We remain with reierfs. Reiserfsck has no options regarding bad blocks, > and I can't remember any other reiserfs utilities that could help with > that. Is there a way of doing it? > > > Now I'll just wait for news here, while trying to figure out why an > IBM-DJNA-352500 three months old which passes all ide-smart internal > OnLine and OffLine tests should turn out to have bad blocks at all. > > And doing backups, of course. Did you ever get an answer to this? I'd run the question past a reiserfs development list or Hans himself. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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