Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:58:06 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E1sztor?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Rich=E1rd?= <ricsip@mailbox.hu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Managing bad sectors during install Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050216184631.02729ed8@mailbox.hu>
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I have 2 small problems about installing FreeBSD. 1) My HDD is a 8,4 Gb quantum, which has 1 bad sector laying on it somewhere. I created ntfs partition on it, and format detected that sector, and marked as bad so there was no problem of data loss because writing to that sector. Now, if i fdisk the whole HDD to a freebsd slice, and divide it to partitions i get an error during filesystem creation, that a bad sector was detected. The system panics, and reboots after 15 sec. My question: why isnt the UFS able to mark this/these sectors as bad, and simply not to use them? Throwing panic for one single bad sector is not an elegant way. 2) My other smaller question: If i enabled SoftUpdates at install-time for "/" but changed my mind, how can i turn it off ? I cant unmount "/" to change it, because its always busy (the other partitions can be unmounted easily in single user) I think these are basic problems, and should be (especially turning OFF softupdate on "/") mentioned in handbook also. ricsip
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