[ale] checking disk sectors

David S. Jackson dsj at sylvester.dsj.net
Thu Aug 3 16:57:14 EDT 2000


Some of my hard drives are getting pretty old, so I've been
running e2fsck -c on them, and also e2defrag.  I don't have
anything important on those partitions, but I do mount them.  And
every now and then, my system appear to freeze while the
filesystem goes on a hunt for some missing block or something
that appears to have gone missing.  

Can you actually repair the physical surfaces of hard drives with
Linux or any tools?  Do you just mark the bad sectors and stay
away from them?

Do you just throw away the old hard drives, even though only some
of the surface area is shot?

I guess big drives are cheap nowadays, but I'm kinda cheap too,
and I also hate to throw away a HD that might be useful somehow.

Any input appreciated.  TIA!

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