Hello, is therer any application similar to badblocks of linux on freebsd? How can I check and mark bad blocks of HD's ? thanks. Atenciosamente, __________________________________ Augusto Cesar Castoldi Analista de Sistemas www.dock.com.br Florian?polis - SC - Brasil E-mail: augusto@dock.com.br Telefone: (48) 3035-2585 --------------------- Sistema Docktool 2005
Augusto Cesar Castoldi wrote:>is therer any application similar to badblocks of linux on freebsd?badsect(8)>How can I check and mark bad blocks of HD's ?But normally modern drives do that by themselves (and transparently remap them). If the filesystem starts complaining about bad blocks (that is, hard read/write errors), that means the on-disk bad sector list is full and it's probably time to buy a new drive. mkb.
Hans Lambermont wrote:>How can I check if my drives are configured to do this ? I remember on >BSDi that you had to 'switch it on' as it was no default behaviour then.I don't know but on my ATA/SATA disks, smartctl displays a "Reallocated_Sector_Ct", which I guess is the number of relocated sectors. mkb.