fsck during boot with badblocks check

[James McKenzie]

Andrew Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> I was wondering if anyone knows how to get fsck to run during a
> boot with a badblocks check?
> I have a remote machine that is getting some bad blocks and I
> want to get it to run "e2fsck -c -c -v -y /dev/hda2" (and hda3)
> on reboot.
> I can get fsck to run easily enough with
> "tune2fs -c 10 -C 11 /dev/hda2" (and hda3) and rebooting, but I
> also want fsck to do a badblocks check coz I know there are a few
> bad blocks (smartctl says so and I'm getting a few I/O errors)
> -Any help greatly appreciated
> -Thanks
> 
Andrew:

I would not trust a drive that smartctl found ANY bad blocks on.  I 
would be looking for a new drive and doing a backup and restore to the 
new drive.
-- 
James McKenzie
Still working on a kernel for IBM Thinkpads with ATI Rage 128 cards with 
ibm-acpi .1.