John Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > out of circulation. 'apropos badblocks' and 'man fsck' failed to suggest > such a function in fBSD, but it might be worth more looking.
badsect(8) > > Why is it radical? After all, IDE disks already do bad-block > > remapping internally, so you've built up a *lot* of bad sectors > > already if they're starting to become visible to the operating > > system... > > Does fBSD's file system creation make sure that all blocks of a newly > created file system are in fact usable? I would be surprised if there were > no cross checks in the formatting/partitioning/fs-creation path. If the > bad blocks weren't linked in the new filesystem, they would have become > invisible for practical purposes. newfs doesn't make any such attempts any more, *because* the hardware has already done it for them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
