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Old 04-26-2006, 06:59 AM   #1
Jayaraghavendran
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Regarding badblocks command in linux


Hi,

badblocks command in linux supports "-o" option in which the output is written into a file specified by the user.

Does anyone know the format of this file? A snapshot of the file contents when badblocks are found on the disk will help a lot.

I am writing a code to run badblocks and then read from this file and display the output to the user. Since my disk doesn't have any badblocks, each time i run the command nothing is written in the file. I don't have an idea as to how to parse the file for getting the number of badblocks.

Please help.

Thanks in advance.

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Jayaraghavendran.K
 
Old 04-26-2006, 07:49 AM   #2
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Its a simple text file, one block number per line. No headers.
Code:
456777
456779
456783
456789
657782
 
Old 04-27-2006, 03:17 AM   #3
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Hi,

Thanks a lot for your reply!!

Regards,
Jayaraghavendran.K
 
  


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