28 Sep
2003
28 Sep
'03
00:06
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 15:29:44 +0100 Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
I tried badblocks and got some weird output, then realised it handles only ext2 filesystems (man badblocks), no good for reiserfs etc., don't know about ext3.
This is why I am using ext3 and not Reiserfs yet- the rescue tools are not mature enough (with ext2/3, one can pass the -c option in e2fsck for badblocks). Badblocks handling in Reiserfs is rather convoluted at this point. Instructions are here: http://www.namesys.com/bad-block-handling.html Charles -- "Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs." (By Dennis Ritchie)