Dying disk and filesystem choice.

[monkeyiq <monkeyiq@users.sourceforge.net>]

Hi,
  Could I please be CC'd replies.

  To keep it short and sweet, I have a 45Gb IBM drive that
is slowly dying by getting more bad sectors. I have already
returned my first one to get the current disk, so would like
to use the current one for a while before returning it for 
another disk that will prolly just start dying again.

I am using reiserfs at the moment, which doesn't really like 
to work on a dying drive. for example, doing a make fails to
work even though it is *creating* files on the disk, it fails
to do so because it hits new bad sectors and doesn't seem to
remap them. 

I am wondering what advise on filesystem choice the list as
and any other options I can use to get the kernel to remap
bad blocks.

Thanks.

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