OT: [HW] Bad blocks on my hard drive]

[Meng Cheah]

Sorry about the OT posting.
Yesterday, I posted to the HW list and so far, there been no response.

Can someone please help?
Thanks.

Meng Cheah

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[HW] Bad blocks on my hard drive
Date: 	Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:44:14 -0400
From: 	Meng Cheah <meng-D1t3LT1mScs at public.gmane.org>
Reply-To: 	GTALUG HW <hw-kPTIhHHajqAdnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org>
To: 	hw-kPTIhHHajqAdnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org



I recently bought a Maxtor 250G hard drive.
I've been using it for a few months with no problems.

I needed to use the remaining 150G as hda4,
I partitioned it and ran "sudo mkfs.ext3 -cjv /dev/hda4".

It showed:
mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
18317312 inodes, 36624183 blocks
1831209 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
1118 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16384 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
       32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 
2654208,
       4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872

Running command: badblocks -b 4096 -s /dev/hda4 36624183
Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): done                        183
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (8192 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 39 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first.  Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.

Does this mean there are 183 bad blocks out of 36624183?
Is this acceptable?

Thanks in advance.

Meng Cheah
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