[linux-help] Re: disk surface problems?

[phrostie <phrostie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

mkswap has a switch -c that tells it to check for bad
blocks.

i've been having trouble too.

remember to do a swapoff <device>
then swapon <device> when your done.


j m wagle wrote:
> 
> Thank you, badblocks works like a champ.
> Now... (sorry, one more question), how do I access my 'swap' space?
> I do a 'df' and display my /dev/hda## (where ## = 05 to 11), but my
> 'swap' is not shown.  (sorry if this is not the way to pose the
> question, but I think that the swap space is were my 'bad block'
> is).
>
> 
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