[smartmontools-support] Suggestion for howto

[Danie M. <dan...@at...>]

I just used your howto at

http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html

to sort out some bad blocks on my hard drive.  Extremely helpful!

 

One thing I noticed, you mention the use of debugfs to find the inodes for
certain blocks in three steps:

debugfs:  icheck 3778301

Block   Inode number

3778301 45192

debugfs:  icheck 3778302

Block   Inode number

3778302 45192

debugfs:  icheck 3778303

Block   Inode number

3778303 45192

 

This can be done with one call:

debugfs:  icheck 3778301 3778302 3778303

 

which can be very useful if there are 10's of bad blocks in a row.

 

Thanks for the brilliant page.

 

Regards,

Danie