From: Niall O Broin (niall at domain linux.ie)
Date: Thu 04 Oct 2001 - 16:20:49 IST
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 12:15:14PM +0100, Rory Winston wrote:
> 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?
I'd be inclined to simply remake the FS with the -c option - let it run all
night if that's what it takes. Of course if you place any valu at all on the
data on that disk, toss it and buy a new disk - a 20G 2.5" disk costs < £100
from Scan.
Niall
P.S. It's really NOT very nice to put this
> Live Life in Broadband
> www.telewest.co.uk
in your sig. when mailing to a list the majority of whose members live in
broadband challenged Ireland. Maybe when Telewest merges with NTL they'll
throw NTL Ireland a few hundred million and they might be able to roll out
their broadband offering :-)
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