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Badblocks

badblocks is a Linux utility to check for bad sectors on a disk drive. It can create a text file with a list of these sectors that can be used with other programs, like mkfs, so that they are not used in the future and thus do not cause data corruption. It is part of the e2fsprogs project, and a port is available for BSD operating systems.

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Badblocks

Nodes18
Edges17
Triples7
Avg. degree1.89
Density0.111111
Components1

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related to External links · 4
Badblocks → ArchWIKI, Bad, HOWTO, Smartmontools
related to e2fsck's "-c" option · 2
Badblocks → The, This
is a · 1
Badblocks → Linux utility to check for bad sectors on a disk drive

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data drive bad sectors block file list blocks option disk check -c read write show part program system partition linux

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Badblocksis aLinux utility to check for bad sectors on a disk drive0.90text
Badblocksrelated to e2fsck's "-c" optionThis0.60section
Badblocksrelated to e2fsck's "-c" optionThe0.60section
Badblocksrelated to External linksSmartmontools0.60section
Badblocksrelated to External linksBad0.60section
Badblocksrelated to External linksHOWTO0.60section
Badblocksrelated to External linksArchWIKI0.60section

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