From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 9 10:42:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.du.gtn.com (mail.du.gtn.com [194.77.9.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C2614D23 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 10:42:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely7.cicely.de (cicely.de [194.231.9.142]) by mail.du.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA02139; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 19:35:15 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.2.10]) by cicely7.cicely.de (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA35432; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 19:41:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.9.3/8.9.2) id TAA57133; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 19:42:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 19:42:23 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: John Andersson Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad sectors on vinum volym Message-ID: <19990609194223.A57095@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <003901beb279$92b169c0$0fad2fc2@te.hik.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <003901beb279$92b169c0$0fad2fc2@te.hik.se>; from John Andersson on Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 03:11:23PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 03:11:23PM +0200, John Andersson wrote: > I seem to have some bad sectors on my vinum volume, fsck reports the > following and does not seem to be able to fix it: > THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE WRITTEN: 44609178, 44609179, > > ***** FILE SYSTEM STILL DIRTY ***** > ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** > ***** PLEASE RERUN FSCK ***** > > This was just a cut of the fsck output, it totally reports about 10 sectors > that it can't read or write to. > I tried to execute the badsect program (badsect /xxx/BAD 44609178 44609179), > but it reports: > Cannot find dev 061004206 corresponding to /xxx/BAD > > The volym in question consists of a 5 disc striped plex. > Is it possible to run badsect on a vinum volym to fix this? > I would prefer not to lose all data on the volym, and since it's about 40G > of data I can't backup all data. > I run FreeBSD 3.2-Release. > It is possible to force a mount and continue to use the volym, but some > directories are unaccessible. > Under which version did you create the volume? I remember a problem in the sizecalculation in early vinum versions. You should check the sector numbers and compare them to the partitionsizes? As far as I know bassect has a limited number of bad sectors it can handle, so I asume the problem range is to big. > Any help would be most appreciated, > John. > -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message