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|    Felix to Mike Easter    |
|    Re: Hard drive question    |
|    29 Jul 25 11:11:50    |
      From: none@nowhere.com              Mike Easter wrote:       > Mike Easter wrote:       >> Felix wrote:       >>> How does LM treat HD bad sectors? Can it identify and mark them (if       >>> any) 'not for use'? or is there an app that will do it?       >>       >> Default LM has Disks which is gnome-disks which has a SMART function       >> which can check and self-test.       >>       > Maybe Felix can bring this around to something practical based on what       > triggered the question in the first place.       >       > Perhaps he saw (or even heard) some kind of warning from something.              no, nothing like that. just wanting to learn about LM, and how it does       things              >       > People write articles or do YTs of what might constitute a warning and       > then go to the SMART business to see if there is something wrong there.       >                     --       Linux Mint 22.1              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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