Re: badblocks and e2fsck
Matthias Andree (mandree@sx1.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE)
Thu, 15 Oct 1998 23:32:14 +0200
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 08:52:54PM -0400, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
> The problem lies in the fact that badblocks is not integrated very well with
> e2fsck. e2fsck calls badblocks to get a list of the bad blocks on a device
> but does not give it a list of the known ones so badblocks rechecks the
> known bad block again, even worse this means that sometimes a bad block get
> remarked good because it just happens to have passed the last bad blocks
> check.
Mightn't it just as well have been mapped away and reassigned by the
hard disk's operating system?
--
Matthias Andree
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