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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:52:29 +0100
From: jerome lacoste <jerome.lacoste@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: ata errors -> read-only root partition. Hardware issue?
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On 1/11/06, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mer, 2006-01-11 at 09:30 +0100, jerome lacoste wrote:
> > - scan for bad blocks
>
> Read the entire disk (write will hide and clean up errors by
> reallocating)

something like should be sufficient right?

cat /dev/sdax > /dev/null

Thanks a lot.

Jerome
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