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Linux PC acting up? How to check for bad blocks on a hard drive - before it's too late
If your Linux computer is behaving poorly, it could be due to bad blocks or sectors on your hard drive. If that's the case, here's what to do ASAP - or risk losing your data.
Once upon a nightmare scenario, I waited too late and wound up losing everything on my drive. This can happen because of physical damage to the drive or failing transistors on flash memory (think SSDs). If badblocks report that there are, in fact, bad blocks on your drive, you'll want to mark them as unusable.
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