Re: Disk maintainence

From: Phil Regnauld (none@regnauld--ftf.net.lh.bsd-dk.dk)
Date: Tue 05 Oct 1999 - 21:59:52 CEST

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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:59:52 +0200
From: Phil Regnauld <none@regnauld--ftf.net.lh.bsd-dk.dk>
To: bsd-dk@hotel.prosa.dk
Subject: Re: Disk maintainence

Anton Berezin writes:
>
> properly, if can use bad144(8) utility as a more/less equivalent to
> winblows scandisk. Also note, that if you have many bad blocks on your

        Common practice for modern disk is: if it gives you errors,
        it doesn't have any spare (unmapped) sectors left to remap to, and
        it's about to choke -- frisbee it.

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