On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 12:27:26PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sunday 20 August 2006 06:43, Nik Clayton wrote: > > I realise that I need to replace the disk. However, while I'm waiting > > until I can schedule the downtime, is there a short term solution I can > > use to stop FreeBSD (I'm running current from a couple of months ago) > > from trying to use this block? > > Reboot into single user mode so swap is not being used and then try > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/XXX bs=64k > > (where XXX is your swapdev) > > The disk should remap the sector, if it refuses to write to the sector because > it's out of remappable sectors then you could try splitting your swap into 2 > partitions around the dead sector and then using them both (should be no > appreciable speed decrease) > I can confirm using this technique. You can also confirm with smartctl(8) that it was indeed relocated (I assume your disk is modern enough to support SMART). Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer
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