Re: How to mark bad blocks without formatting

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

J.S.Sahambi said:
> On my machine I have a 40 GB hard disk. I executed badblocks command on
> one (/dev/hda8) of the partitions and it found two bad blocks.
>
> How do I know if these blocks have been used by any file or not?
>
> And how to mark these bad blocks without formatting the partition so
> that they are not used by the system?
>
> I am using 2.4.19 and all parititions are ext3.

I haven't used ext3 but I hear its compadible with ext2, could you
run e2fsck -c ?

nate