From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 21:12:57 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 179E116A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:12:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail28.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail28.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D522743D39 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:12:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 5122 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2005 21:12:56 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail28.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 28 Mar 2005 21:12:56 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 563902E; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:12:55 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Scott Rothgaber References: <42486D35.6060304@palmedia.tv> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 28 Mar 2005 16:12:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <42486D35.6060304@palmedia.tv> Message-ID: <44br93325k.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bad Block on 4.5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:12:57 -0000 Scott Rothgaber writes: > I have a 4.5 box with SCSI disks. It hung just now and on reboot it > came up in single-user mode. fsck is bitching about block 2144 on the > root filesystem and is unable to repair it. > > Is there any way to get around this? All data is backed up on tape. > > The man pages for fsck and fsdb did not reveal anything obvious (to > me) and all of the articles that I was able to find on Google are for > ext2fs. If the drive has reallocation enabled already, you need to buy a new disk. If it doesn't, though, enabling it may be all you need to do. The "What do I do when I have bad blocks on my hard drive?" entry in the FreeBSD FAQ will explain this for you: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#AWRE -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/