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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!cdc486.cdc.polimi.it!ipmel2.elet.polimi.it!pozzetti From: pozzetti@ipmel2.elet.polimi.it (Ennio Pozzetti) Subject: problem with a bad block and NETbsd 0.9 Organization: C.d.C-Politecnico di Milano Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 15:07:50 GMT Message-ID: <pozzetti.766768070@ipmel2> Sender: netnews@cdc486.cdc.polimi.it (NetNews) Lines: 27 Hi everybody, I have a (apparently) little trouble with my copy of NETbsd-0.9. The problem is the presence of a bad block on my hard disk. I have all the information regarding its position, both absolute from the disk cyl 0 and relative from the start of the file system (/usr). NETbsd doesn't recognized it at the installation (probably because it didn't format its partitions). So, I tried fix the problem with the 'badsect' utility comprised in the installation. When I launched it, 'badsect' told me that the partition (/usr or /dev/wd0e) was busy. I tried to unmount it and I had the same answer. So, i killed every daemon working on it (inetd, syslogd, etc...) and tried again. I had the same answer, even though I was now able to unomunt the partition (umount didn't find it busy anymore). Has anybody any suggestion? Should I format the partition? If so, how could I do it (I didn't find any format utility in the distribution, maybe I didn't look enough carefully)? If you have some suggestion to give me, please mail me directly at the following address: gobbo@parproc3.elet.polimi.it Thanks in advance Gobbo Stefano