Avoiding bad sectors?

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Doug Barton wrote:

DB> > There have been some excellent suggestions in this thread, but one simple
DB> > detail looks like it's been over-looked.
DB> > 
DB> > If the disk has marked the sector as bad, which it should have, and it
DB> > there are redirection sectors available. a reboot is all that is
DB> > required.
DB> 
DB> Not so much overlooked as ignored, methinks. :) If we wanted to reboot all
DB> the time, we would run windows.

Well, swapoff/swapon pair should do the trick avoiding reboot, unless swapoff 
deadlocked.

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck at rinet.ru ***
------------------------------------------------------------------------