When I do a badblocks -w on a reasonable size disk
(I just put a 3gig scsi on my system), the system can
go out to lunch for a few seconds (becomes very non-interactive).
Does a badblocks effectively flush out the buffer cache?
marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
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