Книга: Fedora™ Unleashed, 2008 edition

The badblocks Command

The badblocks Command

Although not a performance-tuning program per se, the badblocks utility checks an (preferably) unmounted partition for bad blocks. It is not recommended that you run this command by itself, but rather allow it to be called by fsck. It should be used directly only if you specify the block size accurately — don't guess or assume anything.

The options available for badblocks are detailed in the man page. They allow for very low-level manipulation of the file system, which is useful for data recovery by file system experts or for file system hacking, but is beyond the scope of this chapter and the average user.

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