Re: Hard drive bad sector warning
2011/9/11 Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com>:
> On 11/09/11 15:38, consul tores wrote:
>>
>> 2011/9/10 yudi v<yudi.tux@gmail.com>:
>
> <snipped>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Yudi
>>
>> I think that, it is a problem with Squeeze fdisk+GPT; please try
>> cfdisk, it seems updated.
>>
>>
>
> Yudi is not using GPT.
Ooops, it should says: Squeeze fdisk + LBA
>
> cfdisk and fdisk are both part of (upstream) util-linux-ng[*1], so both
> handle large sectors the same. In Squeeze they are both (currently) at
> 2.17.2-9.
> Essentially cfdisk is just fdisk with less features and capabilities, and,
> at least in Debian AFAIK, is only available as part of d-i (it's a udeb).
Nop, i did a test to Squeeze fdisk, and cfdisk over similar conditions
(windows 7, and Debian, it shows
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7221e240
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 153 1227776 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 153 19370 154357760 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 59527 60802 10238976 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 19370 41291 176074880+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 19370 19893 4198400 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 19893 35212 123045888 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 35212 41291 48829536 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
> Where did you get a version of cfdisk that is installable on normal Debian
> system?
I did not do it, but GNU-fdisk use libparted; I did another test using
windows 7, and Slackware-13.37; both fdisk, and cfdisk work correctly,
they do not say "Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.", then
the problem could be that 4k-aware (as it is named by Seagate) is not
present on Squeeze fdisk, sfdisk, and cfdisk. I really do not know if
the block errors are by the same cause.
>
> Kind regards
>
> [*1]just to confuse the issue, util-linux-ng (New Generation), originally a
> fork of util-linux, has recently been renamed "util-linux" I swear I'm not
> making that up! :-)
>
> Refs:-
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.17/v2.17-ReleaseNotes
> http://karelzak.blogspot.com/2010/01/util-linux-ng-217.html
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~kzak/util-linux/ (currently down for maintenance)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Util-linux
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