On a recent journey of pain and frustration, I had to recover a UFS
filesystem from a broken disk. The disk had many bad blocks and more
were going bad over time. Sadly, there were just a few files that I
wanted, but I could not mount the disk without it killing my system.
(PATA disks... PITA i
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 10:24 -0800, Richard Elling wrote:
> > I've seen two cases of disk failure where errors only occurred during
> > random I/O; all blocks were readable sequentially; in both cases, this
> > permitted the disk to be replaced without data loss and without
> > resorting to backups
Patrick P Korsnick wrote:
i have a machine with a disk that has some sort of defect and
i've found that if i partition only half of the disk that the
machine will still work. i tried to use 'format' to scan the
disk and find the bad blocks, but it didn't work.
By "it didn't work" did you mea
Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 22:49 -0800, Patrick P Korsnick wrote:
i have a machine with a disk that has some sort of defect and i've
found that if i partition only half of the disk that the machine will
still work. i tried to use 'format' to scan the disk and find the bad
bloc
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 22:49 -0800, Patrick P Korsnick wrote:
> i have a machine with a disk that has some sort of defect and i've
> found that if i partition only half of the disk that the machine will
> still work. i tried to use 'format' to scan the disk and find the bad
> blocks, but it didn't
On 12 December, 2006 - Patrick P Korsnick sent me these 1,1K bytes:
> i have a machine with a disk that has some sort of defect and i've
> found that if i partition only half of the disk that the machine will
> still work. i tried to use 'format' to scan the disk and find the bad
> blocks, but it
