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From: chris@ctk1.UUCP (Chris Old)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re^2: bad sectors
Message-ID: <1990Oct12.065629.28869@ctk1.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 90 06:56:29 GMT
References: <12936@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1990Oct07.005212.20648@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Organization: Tran Systems
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src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) writes:

>jlodman@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Michael Lodman) writes:
>>Is there a way to add bad sectors to the bad sector table in ISC
>>Unix after the system has been installed? 

>mkpart -A <sector> ...

>read the man page ten times before you do it.

Alternatively use 'sysadm diskmgmt harddisk addbadblocks'. Or, just edit
/etc/partitions.

The changes only come into effect the next time you mount the
partition/disk.

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