[clue-tech] fsck and badblocks

[Angelo Bertolli]

Jed S. Baer wrote:

> 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.

I think I have an IDE drive because /proc/devices says there's a block 
device called ide0.  Are you saying I shouldn't have to use fsck -c ?

Angelo