Marking bad sectors

[Jim Byrnes]

Brian wrote:
> On Fri 05 Mar 2010 at 20:53:26 -0600, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>
>> Could this be a zero-length partition?
>
> A sight of the partition table wouldn't come amiss:
>
> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
>

That result is:

ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 64.6 GB, 64558448640 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7848 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00041f28

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         131     1052226   83  Linux
/dev/sda2             132        7587    59890320   83  Linux
/dev/sda3            7588        7848     2096482+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5            7588        7848     2096451   82  Linux swap / Solaris
ubuntu at ubuntu:~$

Thanks,  Jim