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Why was my microSD card fixed after formatting?
I'm sure that they were not file system errors: reading it at the block level (pv /dev/sdb > /dev/null) gave a really low 1.4 MB/s and then at some point it stopped with "input/output" ...
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mkfs.ext4 and mkfs.vfat with same badblock file give me different space
I have a 256GB pendrive with bad sectors, and I get them with this command:
sudo badblocks -wsvf -o 256GB.txt /dev/sdc
But when I use this file (256GB.txt) to format the pendrive I get different ...
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How to quickly format a HDD with bad sectors (in linux)?
I have a SATA HDD, which has bad sectors. I do not need the data, and need to format the HDD to create a fresh device.
I tried to repair the HDD problem with commands like
fsck.ext4 -p /dev/sda1
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