disk scrubber for Linux?

[Lloyd Kvam]

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 16:59 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> Somebody recently wrote (here, I think) that modern disks allocate 
> spare blocks for every sector, spare sectors on each track, and 
> automatically remap bad blocks while there are spares left, so by the 
> time you see a bad block, you're in pretty deep.

Bill Stearns in his LVM presentation at DLSLUG last week.

-- 
Lloyd Kvam
Venix Corp.
1 Court Street, Suite 378
Lebanon, NH 03766-1358

voice:  603-653-8139
fax:    320-210-3409