On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:57:20AM -0700, Richard Weil wrote: > Can e2fsck repair/cope with physical problems with a disk? > > smartmontools found a number of bad blocks on my hard drive. I don't > remember the exact wording. Other disk parameters seemed fine, i.e., > the disk as a whole was not in imminent danger of failure. > > Can e2fsck, or some other program, permanently cordon-off these bad > blocks so that I can continue to use (the rest) of the drive? I would > rather lose parts of the current drive than have to get a new one. You can get mke2fs to run badblocks and "lock out" the bad ones, or you can feed it a text file in the appropriate format (ie. what badblocks would spit out). Don't know if e2fsck can do a similar trick, but it'll be in the man pages. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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