From: Wolf Paul (cc_paul@rcvie.co.at)
Date: 05/18/93 

From: cc_paul@rcvie.co.at (Wolf Paul)
Subject: Questions re: Bad Block Handling
Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 09:53:52 GMT

Are the "check for bad blocks" options to mke2fs and e2fsck (-c/-t) supposed
to work? The FAQ says no, the manpage says yes, for me they didn't seem to work.

And is there a way of marking bad blocks on a swap partition?

If not, is there a performance difference between a swap partition and a swap
file? If there's no big difference, one could have a large swap file
on a swap fs, on which bad blocks could be marked with mkfs -l. 

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