Re: badblocks: No such file or directory while trying to determine device size

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:18:19 +0000, T o n g wrote:

> tdev=sdb5
> 
> $ badblocks -p 99 -c 90000 -wv /dev/$tdev badblocks: No such file or
> directory while trying to determine device size
> 
> . . . was doing
> 
> tdev=sdb and/or tdev=sdb1, and they both went well.
> 
> $ apt-cache policy e2fsprogs
> e2fsprogs:
>   Installed: 1.41.3-1
>   Candidate: 1.41.3-1
>   Version table:
>  *** 1.41.3-1 0
>         500 http://cdn.debian.net lenny/main Packages 100
>         /var/lib/dpkg/status

that was lenny, rebooted into squeeze and all are fine:

tdev=sdb5

$ badbloctks -p 99 -c 90000 -wv /dev/$tdev 
Checking for bad blocks in read-write mode
>From block 0 to 1372971126
Testing with pattern 0xaa: 

$ apt-cache policy e2fsprogs
e2fsprogs:
  Installed: 1.41.11-1
  Candidate: 1.41.12-2
  Version table:
     1.41.12-2 0
        360 http://cdn.debian.net testing/main Packages
         50 http://cdn.debian.net unstable/main Packages
 *** 1.41.11-1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


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