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Date:      Thu, 7 Nov 1996 11:51:19 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        root <root@cwo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Bad Sectors
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961107115026.13148B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199611070733.XAA02898@cwo.com>

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On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, root wrote:

> > Try moving ld.so (or copying it from the Live Filesystem CD) to another
> > directory, for example /usr/bin.  Then try badsect.
> > 
> > Be sure to read the man pages for those utils before using them.
> 
> I tried that before I wrote the mail.  basically, that file and the others
> listed can't be read.  I did try copying ld.so by doing a cat on bin.?? 
> into a bin.tgz file, then extracting ld.so.  Copied it to a file and 
> copied it into /usr/bin.  badsect and bad144 both failed to read the
> sector, telling it wasn't in the data space or something to that
> affect and can't 'attach', I can't remember exactly right now what it
> said.

Hm.  Since I'm no professional when it comes to disk problems, I'm going
to throw this back to questions and hope someone can give some pointers.

> 
> What I did was install another drive, which I needed to do anyway and
> made that /usr copying everything back in that I needed and reconfiguring
> the /usr FS.  I still have the problem with the sectors.  The biggest
> problem I have is / is also on that disk 'wd0a' while usr was on
> wd0s1e.  The only thing I can think of is to move / onto a root-tmp mount
> then, bring it up in single user mode, modify the fstab file and reboot
> so that / is on wd1.  Then blow away wd0 and reformat it in DOS so that
> the sectors are re-written.  I can't figure out how to format in FBSD.
> 
> I'm back up for now so mcs@vpm.com is where I'll be getting my mail,
> which is subscribed to the *@freebsd.org mailing lists.  If you can
> steer me in the right direction on clearing these sectors so I can 
> safely use this drive (wd0).
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> Mark
> 
> 


Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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