bad blocks

[Antony Stace]

> 
> And if you're looking for bad blocks and are not just wanting to check the
> filesystem (?) integrity then use "dd".  e.g. 
> 
> 	dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/null bs=256k conv=noerror
> 

This sounds like what I want.  I want to see if the disk has physical errors.  I
do not want to destory the data on the partition at the moment.  Will this command
be ok to run once I have unmounted the partition? ie it will not delete any data?



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Cheers

Tony。
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