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Scan & Repair Disk Bad Sectors in Ubuntu Linux, Fedora Tips, Tweaks & Help
From: 1776 (MRCROSSROADS)
7/17/20
Scan and Repair Disk Bad Sectors in Ubuntu Linux, Fedora
There are terminal utilities available in Linux which can help you to manage hard disk bad sectors. You can scan and mark them as unusable as well using these utilities. Bad sectors or bad blocks are damaged portion of your mechanical hard disk drive which can not be used at all for data storing purposes.
Read more from debugpoint.comFrom: bshmr
Aug-13
I normally run 'badblocks' directly instead of using the 'fsck [-c]'. Afterwards, one can check the 'filesystem' -- tree, counts, etc. with 'fsck'. Knowing enough about 'badblocks', one can check (over-write, zero) every bit on a drive or partition as well as exercise, initial, wipe hardware.