Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:27:26 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org, Nik Clayton <nik@ngo.org.uk> Subject: Re: Avoiding bad sectors? Message-ID: <200608201227.34510.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <44E77EF7.6070004@ngo.org.uk> References: <44E77EF7.6070004@ngo.org.uk>
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--nextPart1407416.P8Yqx4vqRb Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 20 August 2006 06:43, 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=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/XXX bs=3D64k (where XXX is your swapdev) The disk should remap the sector, if it refuses to write to the sector beca= use=20 it's out of remappable sectors then you could try splitting your swap into = 2=20 partitions around the dead sector and then using them both (should be no=20 appreciable speed decrease) =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 --nextPart1407416.P8Yqx4vqRb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBE58+e5ZPcIHs/zowRAqgRAJ9rMWJTUOvI8G/riphDLbS1jOin7wCfYdJb YTWZsZ0E5OJcEaeD4NwA8Pk= =zWu9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1407416.P8Yqx4vqRb--
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