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From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: BAD BLOCKS -- What to do?
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Date: 14 Jan 91 21:38:11 GMT
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I had some recurring I/O ERROR messages during boot-up, when mounting
my /usr file system (This is under ISC 2.2).  After running fsck it
reports

BAD BLOCK = <block number>

After running fsck the file system could be mounted without a problem.
After this hapens a couple of times, I decided to add this bad block
number to the bad block list through sysadm.

Questions:

1. Where is this bad block list kept and how does the OS uses it?
2. I this related to the defect list in /etc/partition?