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

[Jeff Garzik]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

Agreed, though the original poster had already done a 400GB dd from 
/dev/zero...

	Jeff



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