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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.whirlpool.com!usenet From: wegscd@whirlpool.com (Doug Wegscheid) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: badsect or bad144: device busy? Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 12:58:02 GMT Organization: Whirlpool Corporation. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <33240555.1747220@ghost.whirlpool.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ghost.whirlpool.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5588 the /usr partition on my IDE drive has developed a bad spot (console messages and the nightly maintenance run both tell me so. efforts to take the offending sector out of service with badsect are futile, even when booted single user: I always get /dev/rwd0e: device busy when running badsect. what is the correct procedure for recovering from this problem? -- Doug Wegscheid wegscd@whirlpool.com Q. How many bassists does it take to screw in a light bulb? A. None, the keyboardists left hand does it for them.