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.  

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