From: Rory Winston (Rory.Winston at domain telewest.co.uk)
Date: Thu 04 Oct 2001 - 12:13:30 IST
Hi,
My laptop (dual-boot Win2K/Mandrake 7.1) suffered a fall recently and the
Win2K partition suffered hard errors, making it unrecoverable. The Ext2
partitions survived, however with no data loss (had to fsck the partition),
so waht I have done is I have removed the Windows partition, created a new
one in its place with fdisk, and created a filesystem using mke2fs on it.
The filesystem is created OK, but using badblocks to check for bad areas on
the partition takes an interminably long time, spewing lots of IDE
controller errors. My question is - is it possible to use this partition -
ie can the ext2 FS make use of a partition that contains hard errors and is
smart enough to avoid the affected areas? BTW, I created the FS without the
-c option (check for bad blocks), should I delete the partition and
re-create?
Cheers
Rory
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Rory Winston,
Developer,
OneLine Team,
TeleWest Communications,
Genesis Business Park,
Albert Drive,
Woking Surrey,
GU21 5RW
mailto: rory.winston at domain telewest.co.uk
phone: 01483 295 653
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