On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 06:31:09PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > Hi! > > I have an 8 GB harddisk that I want to use in a Intel P1 / 150 MHz > with 128 MB EDO-RAM system. Yes, that's for real. This harddisk has > one defective sector which causes the installation that's already on > this disk to complain about not being able to clean the /home partition > via fsck. > > My question: Is there a way to exclude the defective sectors from being > accessible at the time the disk is completely initialized for a new > install (slices, partitions, format, tunefs)? Goal: As long as the > defective sectors won't multiply, if nobody ever touches them, the > disk should run fine.
See badsect(8). Use between mkfs and install (hint: switch to "holographic shell"). Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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