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- From: bosullvn@unix1.tcd.ie (Bryan O'Sullivan)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Remapping bad blocks under Ultrix?
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- Date: 22 Nov 92 18:17:59 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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- I have recently started using a previously idle MicroVAX II running
- Ultrix 4.2; unfortunately, the printed manuals were sent to the
- recyclers several months ago.
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- I am having problems with both the root and /usr filesystems; both
- report hard errors. When I booted first, the occasional process
- swapping off the root disk used to die, but now the machine dumps
- me into single-user mode because fsck complains about hard errors
- on / during reboot. Things have gotten so bad that I can't mount
- the /usr filesystem to read manual pages, and fscking the root disk
- and trying to use radisk to mark blocks as bad both fail. Is there
- any way I can save things without reformatting the partitions?
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- <b
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- SCRG, Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin
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