bad blocks

[Ben Elliston]

>>>>> "Martijn" == Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at svana.org> writes:

  Martijn> There is a badblocks program which can be used to scan for badblocks, though
  Martijn> I don't really know whether it's ext2 specific or not. As to a vfat version
  Martijn> of fsck, there's this dos program called scandisk which does that. Why would
  Martijn> some person write a linux version when the dos version is fine?

Err, because it's not free software?

Ben