Bad Block on 4.5

[Lowell Gilbert]

Scott Rothgaber <scott at palmedia.tv> writes:

> I have a 4.5 box with SCSI disks. It hung just now and on reboot it
> came up in single-user mode. fsck is bitching about block 2144 on the
> root filesystem and is unable to repair it.
> 
> Is there any way to get around this? All data is backed up on tape.
> 
> The man pages for fsck and fsdb did not reveal anything obvious (to
> me) and all of the articles that I was able to find on Google are for
> ext2fs.

If the drive has reallocation enabled already, you need to buy a new
disk.  If it doesn't, though, enabling it may be all you need to do.
The "What do I do when I have bad blocks on my hard drive?" entry in
the FreeBSD FAQ will explain this for you:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#AWRE

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/