Got bad sector on HDD in XFS partition, any utility to mark it bad/recover it like seatools does?

Justin Piszcz jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com
Wed Sep 6 11:36:44 UTC 2006



On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Vijay Gill wrote:

>> Yes, run the badblocks command.
>> 
>> If there is no important data on it, do this:
>> 
>> 799] What is the best way to verify a hard drive has no bad blocks?
>> /usr/bin/time badblocks -b 512 -s -v -w /dev/hdg
>> 
>> Justin.
>> 
>
> Sorry I must have mentioned that I did badblocks also, I got the
> sector/block number also which was bad. Now how do I get that bad
> sector/block marked as bad in the file system also so that the OS does
> not try to allocate it for data in the future.
>
> Vijay
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That'd depend on what FS you are using, I'd ask the EXT3 or XFS mailing 
list depending upon which FS you are currently using.

Justin.




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