Bad block in ubuntu

[quackers]

I'm dual booting between xp and ubuntu 8.10 at the moment, i saw an error message last night in the xp management snap in about some bad block on one of my disks that both operating systems can see

Now i'm spending a lot more time in ubuntu, i've a few questions

1) How can i monitor this in ubuntu, logs etc?
2) Does the ext3 file system moan the the disk has bad blocks?

Thanks all

 

[The Mad Rapper]

I'm dual booting between xp and ubuntu 8.10 at the moment, i saw an error message last night in the xp management snap in about some bad block on one of my disks that both operating systems can see

Now i'm spending a lot more time in ubuntu, i've a few questions

1) How can i monitor this in ubuntu, logs etc?
2) Does the ext3 file system moan the the disk has bad blocks?

Thanks all

IIRC you can run fsck and that should check the disk and see if the file system is OK. It can fix a limited number of problems. There was an article in last month's Linux Format about Bad Blocks and how to deal with them. It can be done.