From: Gordon@leaf.net.nz   
      
   On 2025-07-27, Felix  wrote:   
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:47:51 +1000, Felix wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> How does LM treat HD bad sectors?   
   >> You have to specify a list of them to be excluded from file allocations   
   >> when you initialize a filesystem on the disk. Note the -c option in mke2fs   
   >> , which tells it to do a scan to   
   >> find these for itself.   
   >   
   > so this is the correct command to create ext4 file system with normal   
   > cluster size and read/write test?..   
   >   
   > *mkfs.ext4 -c -c*   
   >   
   >>   Or the -l option to get a list of them from a   
   >> separate file.   
   >>   
   >> Frankly, I wouldn’t like to touch a disk with bad blocks on it. Once they   
   >> start happening, they’re only likely to get worse.   
   >   
   > I want to know if disks are good to use them or not   
   >   
   There is no guage wich has good, maybe, stuffed on it. All that you can know   
   is have many sectors have failed.   
      
   So people who have have the experience of data going poof into thinn air   
   start considering how much they are willing to risk this happening.   
      
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