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Date:      Mon, 18 May 1998 13:53:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Larry Marso <lsmarso@panix.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bad block scan without reformating?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518135144.9951G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980514165210.33511@panix.com>

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On Thu, 14 May 1998, Larry Marso wrote:

> The FreeBSD installation procedure permits you to conduct a
> bad block scan on an existing FreeBSD partition, and to download
> the OS into existing slices mounted as /, /var, /usr, etc.
> 
> If you don't create new file systems on these slices, but rely
> on newfs executed *before* the bad block scan, do you risk 
> compromising the integrity of the slice?

If my disks are showing bad blocks, it's getting replaced and/or I'm going
to verify that bad sector remapping is on.  All modern disks do it, just
some don't have AWRE and ARRE enabled by default.  IF it is on and bad
sectors are poking through, it's only going to get worse.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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