[clue-tech] fsck and badblocks

[Jed S. Baer]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:28:03 -0500
Angelo Bertolli wrote:

> I was reading the man page for badblocks and it says to use it by using 
> the -c option with fsck.  Does this mean that fsck doesn't check for bad
> blocks automatically?  How would you do a reboot/fsck with the -c
> option?

1st question is what sort of disks you're using. Modern IDE drives manage
bad blocks internally. There's no utility at all, AFAIK, to having the OS
try to do so.

jed
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