Disk scan utility?

[Art]

I think what you need is "e2fsck -f /dev/hdXn" to force(-f) a complete 
scan of the drive partition.
Art Wagner

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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