Marking bad sectors
Jim Byrnes
jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Sat Mar 6 02:53:26 UTC 2010
Brian wrote:
> On Fri 05 Mar 2010 at 13:54:33 -0600, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>
>> I have a netbook with a Crucial 64GB SSD in it. There are some bad
>> blocks in the first GB of the drive. Right now that is freespace. What
>> can I use to get them marked as bad?
>
> e2fsck -c
>
Tried that with the below result:
ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo e2fsck -c /dev/sda1
e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
while trying to open /dev/sda1
Could this be a zero-length partition?
Regards, Jim
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