Linux, reiserfs and bad blocks
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 4:07 pm
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
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