Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 09:00:20 +0800 From: "Rino Mardo" <rmardo@yahoo.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Seunghun T. Lee" <thomasl@san.rr.com> Subject: Re: Bad sectors Message-ID: <001501c13473$63cac100$0f69a7cb@8189779819> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010902164631.00a91760@pop-server.san.rr.com>
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> I have to install FreeBSD on a machine with fair amount of bad sectors. > And please, please, don't tell me to get a new hard drive, as this HD is > not modern and buying a new hd is just not an option. > > I've searched many documents but none state definitely how it has to be > done. This is just an old IDE drive. > > I know e2 file system offers good bad sector protection. Can I use ext2 in > BSD? Can BSD make and manage e2 fs? > > > --Seunghun T. Lee i too encountered bad sectors while building world and i found nothing to mark bad sectors like what the ext2 filesystem tool has. what i eventually did was to repartition again and this time avoided the area (worth 500MB) that has bad sectors from being included in the FreeBSD slices. 2cents. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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