Avoiding bad sectors?

[Roman Kurakin]

Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> 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.
>   
How about creating a file and attach it as a swap as a short term solution?
eq use smth instead of buggy swap partition, if it is impossible without 
swap.

rik
> Sincerely,
> D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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