disk scrubber for Linux?

[Kuni Tetsu]

--- Michael ODonnell <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
> All that sector/cylinder sparing/remapping magic is
> wonderful but it won't save you if one disk of a RAID
> pair has a bad block mapped to a file that's rarely
> read.  If the other disk goes bad and you think,
> "No problem, I'll just replace that bad disk" you're
> buggered because the remaining disk has the bad block
> and you won't know it until you go to read that file
> when you're syncing the new disk.  Too late...

Isn't it pretty much too late anyway? That is what backups are for :)

Bob King


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