Re: Help with copying a Windows98 partition?

From: Yves Bellefeuille (yan_at_storm.ca)
Date: 09/03/05


Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:29:48 -0400

On Fri, 02 Sep 2005, mechdan wrote:

> 1. Is there a way to do a surface scan and/or a low level
> format on a FAT32 partition within Linux (preferably
> within Knoppix)?

badblocks, badblocks -n, badblocks -w

See also smartctl from the smartmontools package.

-- 
Yves Bellefeuille
<yan@storm.ca>


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