From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Nuno Silva <nuno.silva@vgertech.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk sectors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?)
Date: 18 Oct 2003 22:16:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d6cuuwrz.fsf@defiant.pm.waw.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F9169A2.1050506@vgertech.com>
Nuno Silva <nuno.silva@vgertech.com> writes:
> > Doing cat /dev/zero > /dev/hd* fixes all bad sectors on modern drive.
>
> Yeah! I'm doing this right now because the data in hda is very
> important and and don't do backups since August!! :-D
Aaah right... August - which year exactly? :-)
(Just in case someone wants to try this on live disk - it erases all data
in the process).
--
Krzysztof Halasa, B*FH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-18 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-13 9:31 Why are bad disk sectors numbered strangely, and what happens to them? Norman Diamond
[not found] ` <200310131014.h9DAEwY3000241@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
2003-10-13 10:24 ` Norman Diamond
2003-10-13 10:33 ` John Bradford
2003-10-13 11:30 ` Norman Diamond
2003-10-13 11:58 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-10-15 10:22 ` Norman Diamond
2003-10-13 12:02 ` John Bradford
2003-10-15 10:23 ` Norman Diamond
2003-10-15 18:56 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-14 6:54 ` Rogier Wolff
2003-10-13 14:24 ` Chuck Campbell
2003-10-13 14:54 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-10-13 16:29 ` Roger Larsson
2003-10-14 6:49 ` Rogier Wolff
2003-10-14 7:05 ` Wes Janzen
2003-10-14 7:21 ` John Bradford
2003-10-14 7:40 ` Rogier Wolff
2003-10-14 8:11 ` John Bradford
2003-10-14 8:45 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-14 9:46 ` Rogier Wolff
2003-10-14 9:57 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-14 10:10 ` Rogier Wolff
2003-10-14 10:31 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-14 10:19 ` John Bradford
[not found] ` <200310140800.h9E80BT9000815@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
[not found] ` <20031014081110.GA14418@bitwizard.nl>
2003-10-14 8:55 ` Wes Janzen
2003-10-14 10:05 ` Rogier Wolff
2003-10-14 7:24 ` Rogier Wolff
2003-10-14 9:04 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-15 10:23 ` Norman Diamond
2003-10-15 10:39 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-17 9:40 ` Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk sectors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?) Norman Diamond
2003-10-17 9:48 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-17 11:11 ` Norman Diamond
2003-10-17 11:45 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-17 11:51 ` John Bradford
2003-10-17 12:53 ` John Bradford
2003-10-17 13:03 ` Russell King
2003-10-17 13:26 ` John Bradford
2003-10-19 7:50 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-10-17 13:04 ` Russell King
2003-10-17 14:09 ` Norman Diamond
2003-10-17 9:58 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-17 10:15 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-17 10:24 ` Rogier Wolff
2003-10-17 10:49 ` John Bradford
2003-10-17 11:09 ` Rogier Wolff
2003-10-17 11:24 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-10-17 19:35 ` John Bradford
2003-10-17 23:28 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-10-18 7:42 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-18 8:30 ` John Bradford
2003-10-21 20:26 ` bill davidsen
2003-10-18 8:27 ` John Bradford
2003-10-18 12:02 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-10-18 16:26 ` Nuno Silva
2003-10-18 20:16 ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
[not found] ` <m37k33igui.fsf@defiant. <m3u166vjn0.fsf@defiant.pm.waw.pl>
2003-10-21 20:39 ` bill davidsen
2003-10-17 10:37 ` ATA Defect management John Bradford
2003-10-21 20:44 ` bill davidsen
2003-10-17 12:08 ` Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk sectors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?) Justin Cormack
2003-10-21 20:12 ` bill davidsen
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