Re^2: bad sectors

Chris Old chris at ctk1.UUCP
Fri Oct 12 16:56:29 AEST 1990


src at scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) writes:

>jlodman at beowulf.ucsd.edu (Michael Lodman) writes:
>>Is there a way to add bad sectors to the bad sector table in ISC
>>Unix after the system has been installed? 

>mkpart -A <sector> ...

>read the man page ten times before you do it.

Alternatively use 'sysadm diskmgmt harddisk addbadblocks'. Or, just edit
/etc/partitions.

The changes only come into effect the next time you mount the
partition/disk.

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