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Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> writes:
Boris> Is there a way to mark bad sectors on the hard drive as such so
Boris> that Linux will not try to write to them?  fsck just gives a
Boris> read error and asks whether I want to skip over the sector....

If you run 'fsck -c <partition>', fsck(8) will run badblocks(8) on the 
named partition, and mark any bad blocks as bad.  Also see e2fsck(8).

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