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Re: How to handle the bad sectors on the hard disk?



Douglas Allan Tutty wrote in Article <20070530132143.GA10497@titan> posted
to gmane.linux.debian.user:

> That said, yes you can keep the filesystem from writing on bad blocks by
> running a fsck on the filesysem while its unmounted, and select the
> appropriate badblocks option.

Be sure you have a long time to do this and start early, badblocks takes
forever to complete.

-- 
Paul Johnson
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