Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 10:10:38 +0100 From: freebsd-questions-local@insignia.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixing a bad block on a disk Message-ID: <tefefug8ldgv34khsc99otr354rur2b6so@4ax.com>
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On Thu, 30 May 2002 13:01:22 +0100, freebsd-questions-local@insignia.com wrote: >A recent power spike left me with an unreadable >block on an IDE drive, which FDISK can't fix, so >I can't mount the partition. > >Fortunately it only contained a Squid cache, and >more fortunately I had a spare partition which I >was able to use so the machine is up and running. > >However I'd like to use the partition with the bad >block. Is there any way I can map it out at the >disk controller level, or failing that to tell >newfs not to use that block when remaking the >filesystem? Turned out that it must have only been a bad checksum, since I was able to dd over the one block then it became readable and fsck was happy. -- Jim Hatfield To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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