Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:41:18 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@ngo.org.uk>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Avoiding bad sectors? Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060819164045.02599308@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <44E77EF7.6070004@ngo.org.uk>
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The simplest thing would be to boot single user and recreate the swap.
-Derek
At 04:13 PM 8/19/2006, Nik Clayton wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a disk which has just developed a bad sector in the middle of swap
>space. I'm seeing occasional:
>
> swap_pager: I/O error - pagein failed; blkno 38626,size 32768, error 5
>
>errors in the logs, and whichever application happens to have a page there
>is killed. The 'blkno' value is always the same.
>
>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?
>
>N
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