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Tool for searching bad blocks in block devices and partitions. Use for questions about the tool badblocks or to repair bad blocks on devices.

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I have a portable (3,5'') external drive (Seagate, 2TB, USB3) which I would love to use with my Ubuntu 25.10 laptop. But, it has a few bad blocks: user@user-ubuntu:~$ sudo mkfs.ext4 -c -c -v /dev/sdc1 ...
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I use the disks program in Ubuntu 25.04 to identify the Current Pending Sector Count, and it is 1 sector. After I run badblocks to write every block on the disk, still in the disks program the ...
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After installing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, I encountered an issue when trying to mount my USB drive. I get the following error message: "Error mounting: Wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock"
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back story.. i took my 2 seagate 32000641AS drives out of an old dns-323 disk array.. i put them in my dell Precision T5600 since the dns-323 was old and becoming a pain to manage. i then created two ...
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I'm on Ubuntu Linux 20.04. Over the past couple of weeks I've been noticing some erratic behaviour, like shutting down unprompted and then later booting into initramfs. I followed the instructions ...
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It astonishes me that I was able to perfectly recover an SD card with ddrescue which was used in an RPi for quite a while. But when I'm scanning the SD card with badblocks -nvs bad blocks are listed ...
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The symptoms: I cannot boot anymore into my Xubuntu 22.04 Linux machine, and here's what happened: At some point my home directory filesystem went into read-only (most likely as a protective measure, ...
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Recentely I've installed a new HDD in my system. After making a partition with Gparted, mounting it to a folder I made called /mnt/media and writing the necessary line in /etc/fstab I get the ...
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I have a hard drive with a failing block that points to inode 8 of the first partition, this falls in exactly on the journal. So I tried to run e2fsck -cpvk but the problem is that i forgot to write ...
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I was thinking about running a bad sector check up on my system. Is it possible to do that without unmounting the primary filesystem? I want to check it on the system that is currently running.
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My lenovo ideapad 330s is dual booted, windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04. Both are on the same drive. Yesterday I was booted to windows and suddenly I got blue screen of death. And after that I restarted ...
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I have got some bad blocks in my HDD and I can not login now. I boot from a USB and try to fix it. Before e2fsck I badblocks -nvs the partition first so that I know that bad blocks are in /dev/sda3 (...
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I have a 4TB hard drive which I ran the badblocks utility without passing in the -b block-size parameter. So I'm pretty sure it defaulted it to 1024, and my 4TB drive/filesystem is most likely setup ...
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I have had this error for a while now. Is it safe to use?
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My HD had a few corrupted files so I wanted to check all the sectors and have the HD controllers mark the failing one. Following the advices from this answer, I have run a badblocks on my external HD. ...
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