Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:31:09 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Formatting a harddisk with defective sectors Message-ID: <20080819183109.5afce9f1.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Hi! I have an 8 GB harddisk that I want to use in a Intel P1 / 150 MHz with 128 MB EDO-RAM system. Yes, that's for real. This harddisk has one defective sector which causes the installation that's already on this disk to complain about not being able to clean the /home partition via fsck. My question: Is there a way to exclude the defective sectors from being accessible at the time the disk is completely initialized for a new install (slices, partitions, format, tunefs)? Goal: As long as the defective sectors won't multiply, if nobody ever touches them, the disk should run fine. Thanks for hints! -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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