From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck Subject: Re: Badblocs too long... Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:24:35 -0500 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40103F93.646DC2C8@gelm.net> References: <400DDA88.88583A87@gelm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: patrick.gelin@free.fr Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Hi, Patrick: I tested my badblocks (from E2fsprogs 1.22) on a Slackware 8.0 distribution using kernel 2.4.19 and when I 'badblocks -v -n /dev/hdb1' the following three lines appear immediately: Initializing random test data Checking for bad blocks in non-destructive read-write mode >From block 0 to 8225248 A portion of 'man badblocks' returns: -n Use non-destructive read-write mode. By default only a non-destructive read-only test is done. This option must not be combined with the -w option, as they are mutually exclusive. -v Verbose mode. What EXACTLY happens when you do the same? Perhaps HTH, Chuck Patrick Gelin wrote: > > chuck gelm net wrote: > > > Try: > > > > badblocks -v -n /dev/hdb1 > > > I tried, but it asked me a random patern, I don't know what to do, neither > how to leave... > > Moreover, man documentation explein it's longer with -n option... > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html