hi, i would like to make a badblocks check on my root partition,
am i right executing these commands?

init 1
umount /dev/hda1 (my root partition)
e2fsck -c /dev/hda1

is this right? i was wondering how can linux store the badblocks list if the partition is not mounted....

"is this right?"

Yes. Except that you cannot umount your / partition. A better way to run e2fsck against / is to boot a rescue cd and then do:

umount /dev/hda1
fsck -c /dev/hda1

from the rescue CD.

"i was wondering how can linux store the badblocks list if the partition is not mounted...."

e2fsck has no trouble reading and writing to an umounted device. The reason that you have to umount the partition is because a mounted file sustem may have unwritten buffers in the cache so that the information e2fsck find on the hard drive is not up to date.

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thanks! i was losing my hopes to have an answer :-)

but it worked for me, it unmounted the / partition in the way i wrote... maybe e2fsck didn't checked well in this way? it didn't give me any error messages... if i try to umount the / with runlevel 2 obviously it says to me that i can't umount that, but with "init 1" it worked

"if i try to umount the / with runlevel 2 obviously it says to me that i can't umount that, but with "init 1" it worked"

Right. umount / will work when you are in failsafe mode (init 1).

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