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[Rashkae]

Brian McKee wrote:

> Further to this - if I don't run Spin Rite  on a drive I just dd
> if=/dev/zero of=/dev/theDrive until it errors out of space at least
> once.  That way it writes to every block it can and the drive can find
> and remap all the bad blocks.
> 
> Brian
> 

badblocks -w or -n will do the same thing, with the added bonus that not
only does every block get written to, but every block gets read to make
sure the drive got it right, and any discrepancies are reported.