forcing fsck on reboot ...

[K.C. Chan]

All,
I can force ext3 to fsck on next reboot. But is there a way where you tell it to also mark bad block on a partition? Thanks. I was thinking if there's a way to hack the startup script like rc.sysinit to do the fsck with bad block checking on? Thanks.

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

AFAIK,

e2fsck -c

is what you need - just put it in your sysinit

Vitaly

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

With e2fsck versions 1.26 or laterthis can be done using the command:

e2fsck -cc

if cc option is specified then the bad block scan will be done using a non-destructive read-write test.

With older versions of e2fsprogs, you'll need to run "badblocks -n" manually.

Regards,
Sergejs