Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 10:38 +0200, Lorenzo Quatrini wrote:

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Also I finally noticed that badblocs has a non-distructive read-write mode (the man page is outdated and doesn't mention that) which can be used routinely (say once at month) to force a check of the whole disk.

From "man badblocks":

-n Use non-destructive read-write mode. By default only a non- destructive read-only test is done. This option must not be combined with the -w option, as they are mutually exclusive.

Note the phrase beginning with "By default only...". I'll admit it could be more clearly stated.

Thanks to all for the explanation

Regards

Lorenzo Quatrini

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