Re: EXT2 and BadBlock updating.....

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:21:57 +0100 (BST)

> but the bad blocks remained in place.
> So how DO I trigger a reallocation of a grown bad block?

If its not recoverable data, rewrite the sector. On SCSI you can ask the
device to do a scsi verify operation. The disk checks itself and rebuilds
its bad block lists appropriately. Sort of a non destructive housekeeping

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