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. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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