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Date:      Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:21:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        "Lenzi, Sergio" <lenzi@cwbone.bsi.com.br>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hard reading error
Message-ID:  <Pine.PTX.3.91.960409152040.24231r-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960409103649.390A-100000@lenzi>

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On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Lenzi, Sergio wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> > As Richard Chang wrote:
> > 
> > > 	I am experiencing a problem with my FreeBSD partition with a hard 
> > > reading error on my hard drive since someone accidentally kicked the 
> > > machine while it was running.  I had fixed the problem in DOS by 
> > > repairing it with Norton Disk Doctor, is there a way to do it under FreeBSD?

Hello Sergio,

> I correct this problem in my FreeBSD using the badsect program
> When the error occurs the system display on the console: FSB NNNNNNNNN 
> where NNN is the sector number in error.
> 1) make a /BAD directory in the file system in error say: /usr/BAD
> 2) run badsect /usr/BAD NNNN NNNNN NNNN...
> 3) boot the machine with -s option.
> 4) run fsck /dev/rwdxx (xx) as indicated in the badsect output
> 5) answer to the fsck (y or n) according. (preserve BAD..., no remove 
> BAD, remove file...)
> 6) quit shell and let the system reboot.
> 7) recover deleted files listed by fsck. (from the cdrom for example).
> 
> That's it .

	Tried this but step 2 won't attach....

Richard



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