Re: LibPATA code issues / 2.6.16 (previously, 2.6.15.x)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> You can force the disk to replace the bad sectors by doing a disk-level write:
> 
> 	dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=4k

NOTE! Obviously don't do this before you've backed up the disk.  Depending 
on the filesystem, you might just have overwritten something important, or 
just your pr0n collection ;)

Jeff, please be a little more careful about telling people commands like 
that. Some people might cut-and-paste the command without realizing what 
it's doing as a way to "fix" their problem.

			Linus
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