tool for mapping away bad blocks on an external disk

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Monday, April 18, 2016 a las 08:55:34AM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió:

> 
> Thanks for all the hints; I started last night with overwriting the full
> disk with:
> 
> # dd conv=noerror if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1m
> 
> ...

The dd ended as. I issued from time to time a kill -INFO to the dd to
see its progress:

# tail nohup.out 
...
885016+0 records in
885016+0 records out
928006537216 bytes transferred in 35244.495687 secs (26330538 bytes/sec)
980612+0 records in
980612+0 records out
1028246208512 bytes transferred in 39028.251450 secs (26346202 bytes/sec)
dd: /dev/da0: Input/output error
1154078+0 records in
1154077+0 records out
1210137444352 bytes transferred in 45969.382123 secs (26324858 bytes/sec)

Does this mean I could use the first 1154077 blocks of 1m as partition,
i.e. shrink it to this size and just ignore the rest?

	matthias


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