Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 20:35:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jesse <j@lumiere.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad blocks, how to fix? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970830203252.544F-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970827184637.1946A-100000@leaf.lumiere.net>
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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 <no_dam>. 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
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