From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 13:54:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01270 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 13:54:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01139 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 13:53:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA10002; Mon, 18 May 1998 13:53:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 13:53:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Larry Marso cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad block scan without reformating? In-Reply-To: <19980514165210.33511@panix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 May 1998, Larry Marso wrote: > The FreeBSD installation procedure permits you to conduct a > bad block scan on an existing FreeBSD partition, and to download > the OS into existing slices mounted as /, /var, /usr, etc. > > If you don't create new file systems on these slices, but rely > on newfs executed *before* the bad block scan, do you risk > compromising the integrity of the slice? If my disks are showing bad blocks, it's getting replaced and/or I'm going to verify that bad sector remapping is on. All modern disks do it, just some don't have AWRE and ARRE enabled by default. IF it is on and bad sectors are poking through, it's only going to get worse. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message