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SubjectRe: badblocks and e2fsck
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"A month of sundays ago Matthias Andree wrote:"
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 08:52:54PM -0400, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
> > The problem lies in the fact that badblocks is not integrated very well with
> > e2fsck. e2fsck calls badblocks to get a list of the bad blocks on a device
>
> Mightn't it just as well have been mapped away and reassigned by the
> hard disk's operating system?

What's wrong with
dumpe2fs blah | grep /^Bad/ | sed -e 's/.*: //' > badlist
e2fsck -f -l badlist blah

Well, for one, my reading of the manual page might be wrong.

> --
> Matthias Andree


Peter

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