Bad sector

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 13:10 +0200, J.L. Coenders wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I have a problem. 
> Smartd reports that I have bad sectors on my disk. I have tried checking it 
> with badblocks which also reports bad sectors.
> I believe I have heard it is possible to repair this in a software manner. Is 
> this true, or do I need to buy a new disk?
> 
> Btw, fsck does not report any problems.
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depends upon which filesystem you are using and options passed to the
command...

try, 

e2fsck --help

Craig