[Gllug] Linux equivalent of OS X filesystem Directory

[Chris Bell]

On Wed 19 Nov, Alistair Mann wrote:

> 
> In days of old, we used to reformat a drive with bad blocks and see if
> they went away, reusing the drive if they did. These days, any drives of
> mine with even a single bad block get thrown away. Maybe because drives
> are cheaper, maybe because time is more expensive...
> 
   I have re-used many older drives, but I first create a single large
partition then mke2fs -c -c to thoroughly check the drive. Some are
obviously faulty, with clicking noises,  but almost all other faults

disappear. I suspect many errors are due to accidental loss of power or
crashes or rebooting while still writing with another OS.


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