Re: badblocks hangs

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:38:43 +0000, Bob Tennent wrote:

I have a laptop drive that causes badblocks to hang, whether called
directly or via mke2fs -c. Is there anything I can do to make the drive
usable?

Are you checking an individual partition or the whole, unpartitioned
drive?

Is the drive or partition mounted? It shouldn't be.

Are you using the -v option for verbose output?

Are you doing the non-destructive read-only test or the destructive read/
write (-w) one?

How big is the drive or partition you're checking.

The read/write test can take a LONG time even on smaller drives. I did a
badblocks -w -v on an older 40G hard drive (5400 RPM) installed as a
Slave with a single 40G partition, and it took about 30 hours. System
was a 1GHz Duron with 512MB RAM running only a shell, no X-server or GUI.

So, are you sure badblocks is hanging?


Stef
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