Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:39:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, doconnor@gsoft.com.au, nik@ngo.org.uk Subject: Re: Avoiding bad sectors? Message-ID: <200608211139.k7LBdskN027603@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <freebsd-current.200608201227.34510.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Nik Clayton wrote: > > I realise that I need to replace the disk. However, while I'm waiting > > until I can schedule the downtime, is there a short term solution I can > > use to stop FreeBSD (I'm running current from a couple of months ago) > > from trying to use this block? > > Reboot into single user mode so swap is not being used and then try > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/XXX bs=64k > > (where XXX is your swapdev) I recommend also adding "conv=noerror" to the dd command, so it won't stop if an error occurs. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered." -- Guido van Rossum
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