Are badblocks related to a partition or permanent? : <p>I ran a check on a partition :</p>

<pre><code>sudo e2fsck -c /dev/sdb3
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<p>It found some bad blocks. As far as I understood, it marked the badblocks, so that no files will use them.</p>

<p>My question is : is that "marking" persistent or is it linked to the partition ?
More specifically, if I reformat the partition with something like</p>

<pre><code>sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb3
</code></pre>

<p>are the badblocks still marked ?</p>
