[PLUG] Using a hard disk with single bad sector.

[Geoff Burling]

On 7 Sep 2003, Michael C. Robinson wrote:

> Is there an easier way to get the absolute location of the trouble spot?
> I'm surprised that hard drives can't compensate for a single bad sector
> by remapping all the sectors after it so that it essentially drops out
> of the sector list.
>
> Another hard drive from the same era has completely failed, maybe
> I am getting there on this one too.
>
The command ``mkfs -c" will remap bad sectors. So will the related
commands for other file systems. Check the man pages.

Geoff