Bad sectors on harddisk (question)

Mon Oct 20 16:27:12 UTC 2003

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 06:35:07PM -0400, William Park wrote:
> I've missed that one.  In any case, as last resort, I did
>     badblock -b 4096 -o bad -n /dev/hdb1
>     e2fsck -b 4096000 -l bad -cv /dev/hdb1
> where 4096000 is the last superblock of partition.
> 
> The file seems to be recovered.  It diff's correctly with the old backed
> up file, and it has correct number of lines since last backup.  I have
> no idea why using different superblock would make difference.

One was broken?

Lennart Sorensen
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