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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:56:10 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>
Cc:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Accessing disks via their serial numbers. 
Message-ID:  <46654.1151326570@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:50:46 %2B0300." <20060626154144.D47547@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> 

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In message <20060626154144.D47547@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>, Dmitry Pryanishniko
v writes:

>  I'm repeating my recent post to -current, just for the record... Actually,
>there IS the way to tell whether the last sector is in use on UFS, and
>reserve it from futher use by FS. It's badsect(8). Just declare the last 
>sector as bad, [...]

The problem with this approach is that if the user does a newfs and restore,
the information is not preserved.


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