regular fsck runs are too disturbing - and current approach does not work very well in detecting defects!

[Jan Claeys]

Op maandag 01-10-2007 om 18:19 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Waldemar
Kornewald:
> Could an Ubuntu developer please explain what advantages
> and disadvantages there might be with badblocks

I'm not an Ubuntu developer, but if 'badblocks' looks for hardware
defects, it's mostly useless on most hard disks in use these days.  The
HDD firmware does internal bad block detection & replacement (using
spare blocks on the disk reserved for that purpose).  So if you can
detect any bad blocks using a software check, it means that your hard
disk is almost dead and should be replace ASAP (like, rather today than
tomorrow).


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Jan Claeys