System Recovery

[Jim Kuzdrall]

On Tuesday 15 July 2008 19:08, Ben Scott wrote:

>   Run a destructive write test on the disk.  (WARNING: This will
> *DESTROY ALL DATA* on the disk.)  Boot a working rescue/install CD
> and get a shell prompt, and then run "badblocks -s -v -w /dev/foo",
> where "foo" is the name of the whole-disk device ("hda", "sda",
> whatever). (WARNING: This will *DESTROY ALL DATA* on the disk.)

    Curious.  Why not use the non-destructive badblocks write option -n?

Jim Kuzdrall