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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