Comment by 🧩 ERnsTL

Re: "Looking in the electronics trash at my company, I found a..."

In: s/homelab

Glat to be of help - wish you all the best in making use of that disk

🧩 ERnsTL

2023-07-01 · 11 months ago

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Looking in the electronics trash at my company, I found a nice 4 TB hdd. Unfortunately, the drive was in the trash for a reason, the SMART report indicated some errors. When I ran the `badblocks` command, a dozen of bad blocks were found, all lumped toogether at the end of the drive. I still want to use the drive, if only for data I won't be too sad to loose. How should I process? Can I make partition around the block? Is there a way to tell the filesystem not to use those blocks? What should I...

💬 Arkaeriit · 3 comments · 2023-07-01 · 11 months ago