On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:17:33PM +0100, Firebeam wrote: > pol wrote: > > >Which program to scan and discard badblocks (ext3 file system)? > > I think they mean badblocks(8). > As usual, man badblocks for more info :-) > And man e2fsck. The -c -c runs badblocks(8) for you. Note that the badblocks(8) man page says that you are better to run it as part of the filesystem-specific fsck. Doug.