badblocks is a Linux utility to check for damaged sectors on a disk drive. It marks these sectors so that they are not used in the future and thus do not cause corruption of data. It is part of the e2fsprogs project, and a port is available for BSD OSes. When run standalone, badblocks gives a list of blocks with problems. Badblocks is not usually invoked by itself unless you want a list of badblocks on the hard disk.

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  • badblocks is a Linux utility to check for damaged sectors on a disk drive. It marks these sectors so that they are not used in the future and thus do not cause corruption of data. It is part of the e2fsprogs project, and a port is available for BSD OSes. When run standalone, badblocks gives a list of blocks with problems. Badblocks is not usually invoked by itself unless you want a list of badblocks on the hard disk. Badblocks is usually invoked as an option of 'e2fsck' - Please refer man page of 'e2fsck' on how this is done. When invoked with 'e2fsck' -- quoting the man page: Please check the man pages of fsck and badblocks.
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  • badblocks is a Linux utility to check for damaged sectors on a disk drive. It marks these sectors so that they are not used in the future and thus do not cause corruption of data. It is part of the e2fsprogs project, and a port is available for BSD OSes. When run standalone, badblocks gives a list of blocks with problems. Badblocks is not usually invoked by itself unless you want a list of badblocks on the hard disk.
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  • Badblocks
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