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Date:      Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:41:36 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru>
Cc:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org, Nik Clayton <nik@ngo.org.uk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Avoiding bad sectors?
Message-ID:  <200608211442.04551.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <44E83900.4020108@inse.ru>
References:  <44E77EF7.6070004@ngo.org.uk> <200608201922.26864.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <44E83900.4020108@inse.ru>

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On Sunday 20 August 2006 19:57, Roman Kurakin wrote:
> >Heh, well not necessarily although I personally would be shopping..
> >
> >If the disk gets a dud sector and can't read it it won't remap it until
> > you write to it. (I've seen this happen and someone else posted about it
> > too)   =20
> 1) So why not just dd seek=3Dxx count=3D1 to it to    perform a write?
> 2) Before some one would read it, some one should write to it...
> Have I missed smth?

1) It's just swap, it's less thinking to nuke the whole partition
2) The command dd's from /dev/zero to the disk.

=2D-=20
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