From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 16 17:57:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0FF716A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:57:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from brian.vpk.bme.hu (brian.vpk.bme.hu [152.66.236.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 216D343D46 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:57:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ricsip@mailbox.hu) Received: from brian.vpk.bme.hu ([152.66.236.2] ident=root) by brian.vpk.bme.hu with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1D1TEa-0007wP-00 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:45:08 +0100 Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.2.20050216184631.02729ed8@mailbox.hu> X-Sender: ricsip@mailbox.hu (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.2.0 Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:58:06 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E1sztor?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Rich=E1rd?= Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Managing bad sectors during install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:57:32 -0000 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