-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2009-07-09 at 12:06 +0530, Jay Mistry wrote:
Will 'badblocks' be able to check Windows (FAT32, NTFS) file systems as well as ext3 ?
Yes. It only checks, it does not repair or remap. The format is irrelevant, even if it does not exist. Read the manual. For repairing/remaping you need manual action with different tools.
Are there any tools (Linux programs run from Live CD's) available that will check for & _repair_ (or re-allocate automatically) bad sectors ?
As other have said, simply writing to a bad block will trigger the HD _hardware_ into remapping the block. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpV6SMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VdTQCfcgadNrPy/hMI/z+LH6oeRBrM YVAAn1gF5AW/1ag4YNY6h8qlPKSTeSAm =otEK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org