Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:09:36 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Antony Mawer <fbsd-current@mawer.org> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Nik Clayton <nik@ngo.org.uk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Avoiding bad sectors? Message-ID: <200608211009.37626.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <44E8FC8F.3010801@mawer.org> References: <44E77EF7.6070004@ngo.org.uk> <200608201922.26864.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <44E8FC8F.3010801@mawer.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--nextPart5378386.KqkvS3dgya Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 21 August 2006 09:51, Antony Mawer wrote: > I brought this up on -stable the other day... see the thread titled "The > need for initialising disks before use?" (17/08/06). Knew it was somewhere recent :) > I've seen numerously "young" disks showing up plenty of read errors > (which smartctl seems to confirm are coming from the disk, and not > driver etc related), and would love to see some way to easily "fix" the > problem... these are all < 6mth old SATA drives... Ouch.. Time to switch drive maker. > Unfortunately dd'ing parts of an existing filesystem are a little more > complicated than when dealing with a swap partition :-( Yeah, you can do it but it is more complicated. There was a patch floating around for fsdb which showed what file a particu= lar=20 block was associated with. I'm not sure if it ever got merged though. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart5378386.KqkvS3dgya Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBE6QDJ5ZPcIHs/zowRAmiGAKCTZde+5bqo64KP6PyNMKpV6tsfvACfTyOH gnw4nC7pjRIqqj0s6mPmBiE= =g1g6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5378386.KqkvS3dgya--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200608211009.37626.doconnor>