software for erasing bad sectors from pen drive

[Jim Cornette]

Ankush Grover wrote:
> hey friends,
> 
> Is there any software available on Linux which can erase or block bad
> sectors on pen drive and hard disk ?   I am using FC3.
> 
> Thanks & Regards
> 
> Ankush Grover
> 

When you ar formatting the filesystem, issue the -c option to the 
command. If there are bad blocks, it will mark them so that they are not 
used.

Reading the man and info pages will explain this better. The -c calls 
the badblocks program to check for bad blocks.

Jim

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