Date: 01 Feb 2003 11:19:39 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to map bad sectors on IDE? Message-ID: <44k7gkq8h0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301312140280.4225-100000@localhost.localdomain> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301312140280.4225-100000@localhost.localdomain>
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John Mills <jmills@speakeasy.net> writes: > out of circulation. 'apropos badblocks' and 'man fsck' failed to suggest > such a function in fBSD, but it might be worth more looking. badsect(8) > > Why is it radical? After all, IDE disks already do bad-block > > remapping internally, so you've built up a *lot* of bad sectors > > already if they're starting to become visible to the operating > > system... > > Does fBSD's file system creation make sure that all blocks of a newly > created file system are in fact usable? I would be surprised if there were > no cross checks in the formatting/partitioning/fs-creation path. If the > bad blocks weren't linked in the new filesystem, they would have become > invisible for practical purposes. newfs doesn't make any such attempts any more, *because* the hardware has already done it for them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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