[ale] help, what the #$@! is wrong, badblocks command

[Jim Kinney]

check partition size. That could be the last block of the partition.

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

> I was using this command recently to test a hard drive from a live CD of
> Ubuntu 11.10.
>
> sudo badblocks -nsv /dev/sda3
>
> When some storms came up, I terminated with CTRL-C. It said it stopped at
> block 48791295. I want to restart with the following:
>
> sudo badblocks -nsv /dev/sda3 first-block 48791295
>
> It says invalid last-block first-block. What's the problem?
>
> Any help is appreciated, as always.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
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