From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 30 20:35:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA15689 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 20:35:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA15684 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 20:35:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA00601; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 20:35:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 20:35:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Jesse cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad blocks, how to fix? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Jesse wrote: > My system crashed a few times today, due to a bad block,I think. I didn't > have a piece paper available at the time, but it said something about a > interurpt timeout on wd0, error 0, and error 1 . Sorry for not > having the exact errors. Anyway, it appears that this happens whenever I > try to access my mail file (cat, more, pine, cp, pico). fsck finds > no errors. > > Is there any hope of recovering my mail file? Perhaps just the beginning > of the file is damaged, and I can get the rest? Or should I just forget > it? > > Also, is there a way to remove the file taking the bad block, and adjust > the drive map so it no longer uses that block? `man bad144' I would recommend scanning the mail archives at http://www.freebsd.org before beginning; I've never done this myself. Have you tried removing the file? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo