Disk got a bad block; what now?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Thanks, these are the commands I was looking for.  I'll probably
ditch the drive before long, but it will be because it's just
too small.  And for that, I'm waiting because of money.

++ kevin



On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:45:41PM -0500, Jim Conner wrote:
> As was suggested by another e-mail, the problem will just get worse, not 
> better.  But if you want to mark bad blocks use the following commands.
> 
> badblocks -o <bad_blocks_file>
> fsck -l <bad_blocks_file>
> 
> The best bet is to look at the file generated and see how many bad blocks 
> there actually are.  If you do this, I wouldn't use that partition for any 
> mission critical stuff due to reliability.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Friday, May 24, 2002 6:42, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > It's been a very long time since this happened to me,
> > but my root partition seems to have come down with a case of
> > bad block in the inode table.  SCSI drive, too, though
> > a bit old (not sure, maybe 7 years; its 4GB).
> >
> > Fsck indicates the files affected aren't too numerous or
> > critical, they are
> >    /root/.cpan/sources/authors
> >    /var/webmin/miniserv.pid
> >    /var/webmin/sessiondb.pag
> >    /var/webmin/sessiondb.dir
> >
> > I can live without these, or rebuild them, or reload them.
> > Whatever.
> >
> > I've used 'cp -a' to move my root partition to another drive,
> > and things are running happily.  Now I would like to reclaim
> > that partition.  Is there a recommended incantation for getting
> > that block into the bad blocks table without formatting the
> > whole bloody thing?  Should I just try writing on it and
> > hope it doesn't sin any more?  Should I worry about the
> > whole drive going bad?
> >
> > ++ kevin
> 
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