From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 30 18:55:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BCFD16A4AB for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:55:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfm@shell.reiteration.net) Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED6A43D53 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:54:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jfm@shell.reiteration.net) Received: from [172.23.170.140] (helo=anti-virus02-07) by smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GecGy-0000UA-Qc for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:54:12 +0000 Received: from [82.34.179.228] (helo=shell.reiteration.net) by asmtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GecGx-00005O-MG for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:54:11 +0000 Received: from localhost.aisdirect.co.uk ([127.0.0.1] helo=shell.reiteration.net ident=jfm) by shell.reiteration.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GecGJ-000DCJ-Nv for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:53:51 +0000 Received: (from jfm@localhost) by shell.reiteration.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k9UIqprS050734 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:52:51 GMT (envelope-from jfm) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:52:51 +0000 From: John To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061030185251.GL60126@reiteration.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jfm@shell.reiteration.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shell.reiteration.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: fsck with freebsd-6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:55:31 -0000 Hello list Looking at the man page for fsck, I couldn't find an option to tell fsck when it finds an unreadable sector, to mark it as bad so it doesn't get written to another time. If fsck can't do it, is there a program in the system or in ports that can? cheers -- John - lists@reiteration.net