Avoiding bad sectors?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sunday 20 August 2006 19:57, Roman Kurakin wrote:
> >Heh, well not necessarily although I personally would be shopping..
> >
> >If the disk gets a dud sector and can't read it it won't remap it until
> > you write to it. (I've seen this happen and someone else posted about it
> > too)    
> 1) So why not just dd seek=xx count=1 to it to    perform a write?
> 2) Before some one would read it, some one should write to it...
> Have I missed smth?

1) It's just swap, it's less thinking to nuke the whole partition
2) The command dd's from /dev/zero to the disk.

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