[CentOS] SCSI bad block table display

[Hugh E Cruickshank]

From: Alexandru Chiscan Sent: December 21, 2007 04:03
>
> If you are looking for the table which badblocks builds then you should
> use dumpe2fs (for ext2/3 filesystem).
> man dumpe2fs
> DUMPE2FS(8) DUMPE2FS(8)
> NAME
> dumpe2fs - dump ext2/ext3 filesystem information
> SYNOPSIS
> dumpe2fs [ -bfhixV ] [ -ob superblock ] [ -oB blocksize ] device
> DESCRIPTION
> dumpe2fs prints the super block and blocks group information for the
> filesystem present on device.
> dumpe2fs is similar to Berkeley’s dumpfs program for the BSD Fast File
> System.
> OPTIONS
> -b print the blocks which are reserved as bad in the filesystem.
>

Hi Lec:

Thanks. That does seem match with what I was asking about and does
match with the SCO OSR5 badtrk utility. However it turns out that
what I was asking for was not precisely what I was actually looking
for. What I wanted to do was to see the contents of the SCSI bad
block table not the OS filesystem bad block table (as seen by the
Linux dumde2fs -b or the SCO OSR5 badtrk utilities). It turns out
that what I actually need was the sginfo command from the sg3_utils
package.

Thanks again for your comments though.

Regards, Hugh

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Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com