On 03/01/2012 04:13 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
/sbin/badblocks
has informed that there are 5 bad blocks on a hd. Not in a position to replace at the moment, Only dust in the wallet.
Had a look at e2fsck man e2fsck
-l filename -L filename
Is the "filename" automatically created. or something I need do. The fs is ext4.
To my mad eyes it looks like: e2fsck -ccvp (as single user?)
Have you heard of Spinrite it fixes many bad sectors on hard drives, it ain't free. http://www.grc.com/cs/prepurch.htm