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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Mapping abs sector numbers to files
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.134714.28189@virtech.uucp>
Date: 10 Jun 91 13:47:14 GMT
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del@fnx.UUCP (Dag Erik Lindberg) writes:

>I don't think this is what was asked.  Marco wants to find out which *file*
>is corrupt because of the bad sector.  And I can relate to his problem,

Your right, I misread the questiong.

>having had a similar problem on a customer machine.  Given the bad sector
>error, it is trivial to 'mkpart' the sector into the bad sector list,
>but how do you insure the file system is ok without restoring from a tape?

If a backup is available, I would low level format the drive and reload the
system.  My reasoning for this is that if one sector goes bad, it is likely
that more will follow.  A low level format (along with correct entry of
the manufacturers bad sector list) usually goes a long way towards ensuring
that you don't have the same problem again (although, given time it will
probably happen again).

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