Re: [gentoo-amd64] fsck seems to screw up my harddisk

[Richard Freeman <rich@thefreemanclan.net>]

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Alexander Gabert wrote:
> from man mke2fs:
> 
>        -c     Check  the  device  for bad blocks before creating the
> file system.  If this option is specified twice,
>               then a slower, read-write test is used instead of a fast
> read-only test.
> 
> Please try this and report back if you found something.
> There is also low level test programs of disk vendors where you can
> stress test the brick to make sure it's not faulty.
> 

Uh, just keep in mind that if you do this you won't have much of a
chance of recovering what used to be on the drive.  I'm not sure that
the FIRST thing I'd try doing is wiping the filesystem.  There are other
tools that can do a disk scan non-destructively (spinrite, etc).
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