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From: greg@suntan.viewlogic.com (Gregory Larkin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: /etc/update is hanging
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Date: 12 Mar 91 22:54:54 GMT
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Hi all,

I am trying to build a new libc.a.  My 30 meg partition is
almost full, and I happen to know that there are bad blocks
out in the far reaches of the partition.

When I first made the partition, I ran "readall /dev/hd6" to
find the bad blocks.  I then ran "badblocks" to get rid of 
them (I think!).

I am now building libc.a and part way through the addition to
the archive, it stops.  I hit "F1" and /etc/update has a "C"
flag.  No other activity.  The disk is making sounds like it
does when it's hitting a bld block.  No messages about read
errors and the like have been printed.  After about 15 
minutes, /etc/update unhangs and the archive continues to be
made.

(Assuming this is a disk read/write error),
doesn't badblocks stop other programs, like "ar" from writing
to bad areas by allocating the bad blocks to files?

Is it a problem to mv the .BadXXXX files to a subdirectory
called "BAD".  Does the mv kill the bad blocks information?

Also, when I run fsck after badblocks, I get weird messages
about duplicate zones and missing bitmaps?  Is this normal?

Thanks for any help,


-- 
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