RE: Bad block scanning?

["Andrey Smagin" <asmagin@rapidds.com>]

No, I don't know how to do this (sorry for the useless reply).

Just wanted to say that I was looking for the same information for a
while now - searched the archives and the web, but could not find
anything. I saw several people asking the same question before, but they
never got any answers either.
I even spent couple hours on IRC asking everybody about this.

So, after all I decided that the answer is one of the following:
1. It's not implemented yet (most likely).
2. It's too obvious to even answer the question or put it in the FAQ or
in the man.
3. It's a forbidden question.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-misc@openbsd.org
> [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org]On Behalf Of
> Jordan Klein
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 1:12 PM
> To: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Bad block scanning?
>
>
> Does anyone know how to get OpenBSD to scan a partition for
> bad blocks?
> Recently, my /home filesystem started reporting bad blocks,
> on my IDE drive.
> Normally, I would take this as a sign of it's being time to
> replace the
> drive, but I'm still job hunting (damn Bay-Area job market...), and am
> cash-poor at the moment.
>
> In Linux, there was a badblocks command that could be used to do
> non-destructive or destructive bad sector scanning.  Plus, the mke2fs
> command has a '-c' option that tells it to scan for bad
> blocks and mark them
> out during formatting of a filesystem.  I have not found
> anything similar in
> OpenBSD.
>
> For now, I've moved /home to free space on another drive, but
> now I've got
> 4GB being wasted and I'd like to use it, minus the bad
> sectors, of course.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Jordan Klein
> haplo@haplo.net
> System and Network Administrator -- AIX / Solaris / Linux
> Administrator
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