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Subject: Re: Avoiding bad sectors?
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In message: <44E77EF7.6070004@ngo.org.uk>
            Nik Clayton <nik@ngo.org.uk> writes:
: I realise that I need to replace the disk.  However, while I'm waiting 
: until I can schedule the downtime, is there a short term solution I can 
: use to stop FreeBSD (I'm running current from a couple of months ago) 
: from trying to use this block?

repartition to not have this block in any partition.  Ugly, evil,
nasty.  However, it is a short term solution...

Warner