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How to interpret badblocks output
The man pages for badblocks do not seem to mention what the three numbers in the output mean in particular:
Pass completed, 7 bad blocks found (7/0/0 errors)
Pass completed, 120 bad blocks found ...
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Can MD cope with a badblock list?
I have a MD drive set in RAID6 configuration with LVM2 on top. One of my drives was faulted last night due to bad blocks. Now apart from the fact that I am aware I should physically replace the drive, ...
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manufacturer's tool found bad blocks, but smartctl doesn't show any
Description of my problem is quite large, so first I will give a short summary, then I will precisely describe the situation.
Short summary: manufacturer's diagnostic tools found and repaired some ...
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UBI bad block management
Anyone know what happens when UBI uses up all its reserved PEBs that are reserved for bad block management? For example say I have a UBI volume that has 14 PEBs reserved
# ubinfo -d 1
ubi1
Volumes ...
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Is interrupting badblocks risky?
I'm running badblocks to check for bad segments on an external drive, and it's been about an hour and it has not yet finished. Now, I need to go and consider cancelling. Is this somehow risky? Should ...
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Linux - Repairing bad blocks on a RAID1 array with GPT
The tl;dr: how would I go about fixing a bad block on 1 disk in a RAID1 array?
But please read this whole thing for what I've tried already and possible errors in my methods. I've tried to be as ...
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ReFS but for Linux
Microsoft is going to bring a "Resilient FileSystem" with Windows 8, but only for servers. I'd like that on a Linux desktop, but my search reveals no contender. There are so many filesystems for ...
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How to view bad blocks on mounted ext3 filesystem?
I've ran fsck -c on the (unmounted) partition in question a while ago. The process was unattended and results were not stored anywhere (except badblock inode).
Now I'd like to get badblock ...
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Why is badblocks segfaulting?
I am trying to check a mounted partition to see if the drive has errors:
[root@virtuality ~]# /sbin/badblocks -v /dev/sdb1
Segmentation fault
Uh oh. What does this mean? Why is badblocks ...
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How do you use badblocks?
I can never remember the specific incantations for using badblocks, and apparently google isn't much help either. Yes I could read the man page but I remember it's like 4 options I have to use to get ...
