Re: Blockbusting news, this is important (Re: Why are bad disk sectors numbered strangely, and what happens to them?)

[Krzysztof Halasa]

Nuno Silva <nuno.silva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > Doing cat /dev/zero > /dev/hd* fixes all bad sectors on modern drive.
> 
> Yeah! I'm doing this right now because the data in hda is very
> important and and don't do backups since August!! :-D

Aaah right... August - which year exactly? :-)

(Just in case someone wants to try this on live disk - it erases all data
in the process).
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa, B*FH
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