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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.




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