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From: <Jue...@t-...> - 2003-03-14 12:11:17
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Attila Tajti wrote: > > Is there a way to check the surface from Linux apart from dd if=/dev/hda > of=/dev/null ? It seem to go crazy somewhere in that NTFS partition. > Yes, of course there is. 'badblocks' (from e2fsprogs package) can be used on its own, and independentally from file system(s), on a single partition or the whole disk device. Apart from that, it is used internally by e.g. "mke2fs -c ...". Feel free to check the man page, though; I'd _not_ recommend to use the "-w" option, if you want to keep the file system(s)/ partition(s) ;-)). This option is suitable to entirely wipe out the partition/disk. Back 'em up beforehand, anyway. But altogether, as opposed to somehow "refreshing" the surface of floppy disks, which worked several times for me already, on HDDs you can't do much more than to locate the bad sectors, and probably isolate them by repartitioning and reformatting. Hence, be prepared for replacing the resp. HDD soon... Juergen |
