From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 9 16:24:25 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 E527016A4CE for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 16:24:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [205.211.164.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CCBD43D39 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 16:24:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from BLUELAPIS.sentex.ca (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.13.3/8.13.3) with SMTP id j39GOOiM006975 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 12:24:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 12:24:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20050409142457.83187.qmail@web31807.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <44br8o3ru7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44br8o3ru7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: check for badblocks in hd 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: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:24:26 -0000 On 09 Apr 2005 11:14:24 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Paulo Roberto writes: > >> I read the newfs man page but I couldn't find anything related to bad >> block checking. Is there a tool for doing it? > >Modern disks handle bad blocks internally, so they are not visible to >the operating system (until the disk is almost dead, anyway). There >are usually manufacturer tools for looking at it more closely, but by >and large, if you know you have bad blocks, it's time to get a new >disk. There is a FAQ entry on this, with considerably more >information. =20 Also if you are using 5.x, see the port=20 /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools/ It can give you all sorts of info about your hard drive ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net Providing Internet Access since 1994 mike@sentex.net, (http://www.tancsa.com)