Linux, reiserfs and bad blocks

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Linux, reiserfs and bad blocks

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My laptop uses an old harddisk. It has a number of bad sectors, a few of which are being "used" by openoffice to store some files it tries to load, but always fails to. It therefore starts in a matter of minutes, which is quite slow.

If I could mark these as bad and avoid my dmesg growing to huge sizes with slow actions, I could speed up the access and prevent the hd from trying to wreck its heads on a lost sector.

How do I use badblocks with reiserfs? On a second note, does anybody have a laptop harddisk for offer? :)

Thanks, Candy
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Re:Linux, reiserfs and bad blocks

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does this site help?

http://www.namesys.com/bad-block-handling.html
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Re:Linux, reiserfs and bad blocks

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beyond infinity wrote: does this site help?

http://www.namesys.com/bad-block-handling.html

Yes, thanks.

Now I'm sure I'm screwed. It's not so much in OO's files as in the root section of the partition. Which contains my linux install...

*plans to save up to 80 euros and buy a new hd* + *plans to completely reinstall this sucker next februari*
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