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From: Patrick Gelin <patrick.gelin@free.fr>
Subject: Badblocs too long...
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:10:25 +0100
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Hi,

I suspect bad blocs in my Hard disk, so I try the commande:

e2fsck -c /dev/hdb1 (hdb1 not mounted)

it calls badblocks, but it's very very long... after half a day I've checked
only 1/10 of my hard disk (IDE - 20 Go)

1. Is it normal? 

2. Can I do something else? 

Thanks.
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