Re: Marking bad sectors

On Fri 05 Mar 2010 at 20:53:26 -0600, Jim Byrnes wrote:

Could this be a zero-length partition?

A sight of the partition table wouldn't come amiss:

sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

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