On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 04:17:57PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2006/05/03 10:24, Paulo Manoel Mafra wrote: > > I would like to create a large partition on a disk, but this disk has a > > known bad block. How could I create the partition without the bad block ? > > Use a different drive? It's normal for drives to have bad blocks, > they used to be printed on a label attached to the drive, modern drives > have spare capacity which is automatically allocated over bad or failing > blocks. If this isn't happening any more, the drive is not worth > trusting. >
i've got a drive that sometimes fails to replace bad blocks even if there seems to be spare blocks available unless i overwrite them. I've tried to summarize this here: http://caoua.org/alex/obsd/badsect.html -- Alexandre
