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From: Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I show list of bad blocks on a disk?
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 06:27:49
Message-Id: 4D747A72.20601@asyr.hopto.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How do I show list of bad blocks on a disk? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 on 03/06/2011 07:07 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote the following:
2 > Before leaving home, I started an fsck.ext4 on a filesystem (500GB)
3 > that resides on a disk that I suspect is damaged:
4 >
5 > fsck.ext4 -c -c -f /dev/sdb1
6 >
7 You can check the SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting
8 Technology) data, which is built-in in all hard drives today, and allows
9 you to see the status or overall “health” of a hard drive.
10
11 ( smartctl -a /dev/sdb )

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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I show list of bad blocks on a disk? Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>