hard drive errors

[Mike Rambo]

I found at the end of last week that a few read errors on my hard drive
are beginning to cause me trouble.  The errors are on the /home
partition.  Does it sound reasonable to:
 tar -zcvf the contents of /home
 move it somewhere safe
 umount /home
 mke2fs -c /dev/hdb8
 mount /dev/hdb8 /home
 tar -zxvf the contents of /home
 ?

In particular, will the -c flag properly create a media error map if
needed ( the man page makes it sound like it should).  Is there a
'better way'(tm)?

Thanks.
-- 
Mike Rambo
mrambo@lsd.k12.mi.us