Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 01:24:54 -0400 From: Scanner <scanner@apricot.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: possible to block out bad media on a partition? Message-ID: <199510150524.BAA02603@apricot.com>
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Hello, I have been a happy user of FreeBSD since around February of this year and I have finally run in to a case where I wish the disk tools were more up to what I have been used to on SunOS. I had a nasty power blip and I have no UPS for my system yet. (Yeah, yeah, I am going to look at prices this week.) When the machine came back up it was unable to come all the way up because it found a media error that it could not work around on one of the partitions. Luckily the partition was only /var (yeah, I like having /var be its own partition.. ), and also luckily I do daily backups. So, after poking around a little bit I made a /usr/var and symlinked /var to /usr/var, and restored /var off of tape. Now, I have this 32 meg partition for /var that is unreferenced (commented out of fstab), and has a media error on it. Is there anyway I can format or otherwise re-do just _that one_ partition to see if I can get it back online? My setup: cpu: intel DX2/66 core: 16meg of ram devices: Adaptec 2842A 3C509 fairly generic SVGA 1.44meg 3.5" floppy scsi dev: Quantum Empire 2100S HP35480A 4mm DAT drive Toshiba XM-3501TA cdrom version: FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE #0 (What other information would you need?) I know that this is a pretty much entirely volunteer effort so I greatly appreciate any help that you can give. --Scanner (scanner@apricot.com)
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