Milutin Kitic wrote:
> I have recently found some bad blocks on one of my hdd-s...
> On Irix i use 'fx' utility to mark them. On Linux, is there
> something similar? I have xfs on this disk.
There is nothing built into XFS for marking or avoiding bad blocks.
There was a thread about this earlier, you might check out the archives.
I think the summary is:
Modern hard drives have internal "housekeeping" to transparently move
data away from bad blocks as they appear. By the time the _user_
actually starts seeing bad blocks, this means that the drive can no
longer cope with the failures, and it's probably a short trip to the
trash.
Look for the "ucsc-smartsuite" utility to monitor drive health (via the
S.M.A.R.T. protocol), so you can replace your drives before they fall
apart. :)
HTH,
-Eric
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Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc.
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