[fedora-virt] How to check image for Bad sectors?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:33:50PM +0000, Frank Murphy wrote:
> When checking  if bad sectors, are the cause of guest problems.
> Do you run badblocks -sv /dev/*da
> from the host,
> or should the guest be booted,
> and badblocks -sv /dev/vda

We've never added badblocks support to libguestfs because I never
believed that it would be an issue for virtual machines.  However it
would be quite easy to add.

Rich.

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