Scott Rothgaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a 4.5 box with SCSI disks. It hung just now and on reboot it > came up in single-user mode. fsck is bitching about block 2144 on the > root filesystem and is unable to repair it. > > Is there any way to get around this? All data is backed up on tape. > > The man pages for fsck and fsdb did not reveal anything obvious (to > me) and all of the articles that I was able to find on Google are for > ext2fs.
If the drive has reallocation enabled already, you need to buy a new disk. If it doesn't, though, enabling it may be all you need to do. The "What do I do when I have bad blocks on my hard drive?" entry in the FreeBSD FAQ will explain this for you: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#AWRE -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
