From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261825AbTJRURu (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:17:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261827AbTJRURu (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:17:50 -0400 Received: from hq.pm.waw.pl ([195.116.170.10]:56495 "EHLO hq.pm.waw.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261825AbTJRURt (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:17:49 -0400 To: Nuno Silva 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?) References: <32a101c3916c$e282e330$5cee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <200310131014.h9DAEwY3000241@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <33a201c39174$2b936660$5cee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <20031014064925.GA12342@bitwizard.nl> <3F8BA037.9000705@sbcglobal.net> <3F8BBC08.6030901@namesys.com> <11bf01c39492$bc5307c0$3eee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <20031017102436.GB10185@bitwizard.nl> <200310171049.h9HAnBbO000594@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <200310171935.h9HJZaLm002335@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <200310180827.h9I8Rxw8000383@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <3F9169A2.1050506@vgertech.com> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: 18 Oct 2003 22:16:16 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3F9169A2.1050506@vgertech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nuno Silva 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