Avoiding bad sectors?

[Derek Ragona]

The simplest thing would be to boot single user and recreate the swap.

         -Derek


At 04:13 PM 8/19/2006, Nik Clayton wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a disk which has just developed a bad sector in the middle of swap 
>space.  I'm seeing occasional:
>
>  swap_pager: I/O error - pagein failed; blkno 38626,size 32768, error 5
>
>errors in the logs, and whichever application happens to have a page there 
>is killed.  The 'blkno' value is always the same.
>
>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?
>
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