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

Vijay Gill vijay.s.gill at gmail.com
Wed Sep 6 15:05:36 UTC 2006


On 06/09/06, Grumpy_Penguin <grumpypenguin at qwest.net> wrote:
> Badblocks
> http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/badblocks.8.html
>
> --
I had run badblocks too, and got the number of the block which is bad,
using the following command

badblocks -c 1 -s -v /dev/hda3

But that number is useless because, unlike ext2/ext3, the XFS does not
have a support for marking bad blocks (as per the replies from XFS
mailing list).

Vijay




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