Subj : Re: bad sectors
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Sybren Stuvel
Date : Tue Oct 19 2004 09:51 am

Roland enlightened us with:
> All right. But the man page says that badblocks can provide a list
> of bad blocks to mke2fs, that is, _before_ the filesystem is
> created.

Not the "can" in that sentence. Read well! Just because you can use
something in a certain way, doesn't mean that's the *only* use!

> (Sure the best option when new bad sectors appear on a disk is to
> buy a new disk, but the problem seems to be stable so I want to
> continue with this drive.)

Don't.

Sybren
-- 
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

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