Re: Bad Blocks

[Scott Taylor <scott@dctchambers.com>]

At 07:48 AM 19/09/2002, Abiy,Mike [Edm] wrote:
>I would like to apologize, first, if this happens to be a simple question.
>
>1. How does one test for bad blocks on a hard drive in linux.
>
>2. More important, how does one render a bad block on hard drive unreadable,
>so that the bad block utility that was used( whatever it may be)  and/or
>program does not try to write or read to this same bad block, resulting in
>the same errors happening again and again.
>
>3. This was necessitated by trips to a remote site from remote power bootup
>( sometime it is absolutely necessary to do that) to do a manual fsck,
>because the linux box stops the normal bootup process awaiting manual
>intervention to do manual fsck.
>
>any information on this topic would be greatly appreciated.

Hello Michael,

That could depend on your hardware and file system.  Probably a good idea 
to read 'man fsck'