From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2012-11-16, Adam  wrote:   
   > TJ wrote:   
   >> On 11/15/2012 07:22 PM, Adam wrote:   
   >>> I'd say cancel MCC and start again with 'mke2fs' for each partition from   
   >>> the command line.   
   >>   
   >> Around 36 hours now, and still going. Have decided to let it go until   
   >> tomorrow morning, and if it isn't done then I may just attempt to format   
   >> it from the command line, without checking for bad blocks again.   
   >   
   > If MCC wasn't finished, then the bad block check wasn't finished either.   
   >   If you're going to do it again from the command line, I /strongly/   
   > suggest you do the r/w test as part of mke2fs, before you put important   
   > data on the drive and while it's still easy to return if there are   
   > problems with it.   
      
   But I thought that most drives these days did a silent bad-block   
   remapping anyway. Thus you would not see anything on such a test, until   
   so many bad blocks had swamped the system that the spare blocks were all   
   used up. Ie, is there really any point at all in his huge waste of time?   
   ( and if it is on a usb bus, perhaps taking the drive out and putting on   
   the computer's bus to do the process a bit quiker than many days would   
   be advantageous).   
      
   >   
   > Adam   
      
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