I just find out some more info on this.  Check out the following link for 
detailed info
http://tldp.org/LDP/sag/x1298.html

You may want to use the badblocks command first, then the e2fsck.


Regards,
Darren

>From: technomage <technomage-hawke@cox.net>
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>Subject: Re: Disk scan utility?
>Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 02:54:10 -0700
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>e2fsck -c /dev/device will do just this. you can even see its progress with 
>a
>- -v (verbose).
>
>Mage
>
>On Wednesday 14 May 2003 11:58 pm, AZ Pete wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is there a util in Linux that will perform a surface scan of a hard disk 
>to
> > locate bad sectors and mark them as unusable?
> > Something similar to Windows Scandisk util.
> > I recall during the Redhat installation routine there was a check box 
>that
> > I could select to perform a surface scan.  What utility does this?
> > I have a hard drive I'm trying to get data from but there are a few bad
> > sectors and as a result I'm unable to pull an image of the drive.  I 
>would
> > like to mark those sectors as bad, so I can then pull the image and get
> > most of the data off the drive.
> >
> > I tried using fsck, but it only seems to check if the filesystem is
> > contiguous.  It says that the filesystem is clean.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > Peter
> >
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