Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:11:35 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: John <lists@reiteration.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck with freebsd-6.1 Message-ID: <44lkmxr53s.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20061030185251.GL60126@reiteration.net> (John's message of "Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:52:51 %2B0000") References: <20061030185251.GL60126@reiteration.net>
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John <lists@reiteration.net> writes: > 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? There are still some utilities in the system for that sort of thing, but they are pretty much historical oddities for most people; modern drives do remapping automatically, (generally) invisible to the user.
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