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Accessories / How to mark a bad sector on the SD card
« on: August 10, 2004, 02:00:01 am »
I have at least one bad sector on my vfat formatted SD card. fsck.vfat finds it but fails to fix it.
What do I need to do to mark the sector bad so it's not used?
(I primarily use the SD card for MP3s and larger (0.05MB to 0.5MB) document files (books), and am willing to use whatever filesystem will maximize space.; if it's easier to make it not vfat, that's a possibility.
While I don't want to make the entire card a cramfs, I'd accept making part a cramfs if it saved a significant amount of space (which seems unlikely, as I'm dealing with already compressed data).)
The SD card is a 512 MB SanDisk
What do I need to do to mark the sector bad so it's not used?
(I primarily use the SD card for MP3s and larger (0.05MB to 0.5MB) document files (books), and am willing to use whatever filesystem will maximize space.; if it's easier to make it not vfat, that's a possibility.
While I don't want to make the entire card a cramfs, I'd accept making part a cramfs if it saved a significant amount of space (which seems unlikely, as I'm dealing with already compressed data).)
The SD card is a 512 MB SanDisk