[H-GEN] CDROM mount problem on Open SUSE.

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

On 7/16/06, Stephen Thorne <stephen at thorne.id.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:46:33 +1000, Michael Anthon <michael at anthon.net> wrote:
> > The other option that you could try here is a program call badblocks (part
> > of the e2fsprogs package).  I've used this only once or twice and that was
> > quite some time ago but it's supposed to scan for and report bad blocks in a
> > partition.
>
> Caution: Badblocks will destroy all data on a partition. It is a destructive tool.

It's not necessarily destructive.  The manpage says it's not
destructive by default and that jibes with my use of it through the
years.  It bears reading the manpage, but really, if one is still
wondering what /etc/fstab is, then, no, running badblocks probably
isn't something one should be doing.