Re: Serious problem with Linux on an old PC

The Natural Philosopher wrote (in part):

Bad block mapping works up to a point, but an increase in the bad block
count shows that something bad is happening inside the disk.

I thought bad block mapping was obsolete because recent hard drives do this
automatically internally. So by the time the OS notices a bad block, all the
spare blocks for remapping on the hard drives have been used. I.e., the hard
drive is almost dead already any you barely have time (if not already too
late) to get your data off it before it crashes completely.

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