@derobert We don't know. Anyone may choose not to disclose personal beliefs or hobbies. As far as we know, X is just a name on a mailing list. There's no "normal" developer. In real life, they may be a developer and a gun nut, or broccoli-lover, or whatever.
@derobert: ok, but bad block management is done, when a read or write of the bad sector is read or written. But at that moment will slow down my IO speed dramatically.
I want to pre-scan the surface, fix the bad or weak sectors, then use the HDD with better performance.
@klor if you want to pre-scan the surface, either just use whatever to read all of /dev/sdX (e.g., pv -pterba /dev/sda > /dev/null works well) or use smartctl -t long /dev/sdX to tell the disk to do it itself
And if your new disk already has bad sectors out of the box... I'd consider sending it back.
But bad blocks will happen after the disk has been used for a while. You may need to use error-recovery control (etc.) to keep the response time down, and disk that support it. Hard to say since your question doesn't contain any details.
@derobert: I bought disk with some bad sectors, to fix them, then use it as part of RAID 6 cluster. So sending back is not an option :) I can do bad sector fixing under Windows, there are very good bad block fixing tools, but under Windows, the process is very slow, one sector fix takes 15 minutes. Waaay slow.
This is why I'm looking for a Linux solution, which does the same process in a faster way.
Hmm. I enjoy Windows bashing as much as the next guy but I wouldn't expect Linux to be any faster than Windows with something like this.
By the way @klor all of this stuff should go in your question. When I first read it I just thought you were some clueless windows refugee who thought bad blocks == fragmentation.
@terdon: unfortunately Windows is not good at staying responsive when a device doesn't respond in time. A Windows 7 app tends to hang until the device is not responding. In Windows XP the same situation hanged the whole system until the response or a timeout.
Linux behaves but better in such situations, remains responsive. This is why I expect faster result from Linux.
I feel you went a little too far on the other side though (my fault, I told you to add "all this") so I edited and removed some of the less relevant information.
Thankfully, I've mostly done that sort of thing volunteering for a not-for-profit more than for a living. At work, I can get questionable hard drives replaced much more easily.
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How can I do to scan surface of my hard disk and fix/reallocate bad sectors in Linux from command line?
