Badblocks on the hd.

[Jim]

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