Finding bad blocks on hard drive in Linux

Run:

• sudo badblocks -v /dev/sda1 > bad.block
• sudo fsck -t ext4 -l bad.block /dev/sda1

badblocks is part of the e2fsprogs package in Ubuntu. The first command will find all bad blocks that you may have on /dev/sda1 and the second one will try to move data found in bad blocks to another place. If it can't then the file may be corrupted and lost.