How to Detect Bad Sectors or Bad Blocks on Linux Hard Drives
Let’s start by defining a bad sector/bad block, it is a section on a disk drive or flash memory that
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Let’s start by defining a bad sector/bad block, it is a section on a disk drive or flash memory that
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