![]() These are known as soft bad sectors or software bad blocks, and can be corrected merely through a simple file system operation. However, machines seldom incorrectly flag sectors as bad. ![]() This is what most people mean when they complain about a bad block, though there is a minor but very technical difference between a bad sector and a bad block. One is the traditional notification of bad sectors that indicate a problem with the physical geometry of a disc platter or a NAND memory cell. In spite of this, users might actually receive notices about two different types of bad sector masquerading as the same. Individual users of Linux might occasionally get the same. You may ultimately get a warning from GParted in Linux or chkdsk in Windows that there were bad sectors. Users who dual boot some distribution of Linux with a version of Microsoft Windows might occasionally try to shrink or grow certain partitions to leave more space for one operating system or the other.
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