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- From: ltran@netcom.com (Linh C Tran)
- Subject: Help - Problem with newfs after reformatting
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.101538.10374@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:15:38 GMT
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- Help,
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- I have a MAXTOR disk drive that was causing many READ errors at various block
- sector. I ran fsck and that didnot solve the problem. So earlier, I decided to
- reformat the disk drive cuz I have a "good" backup. Since I am keeping all
- the information the same as before, I did not change the partition size at all.
- I went ahead reformat the disk drive. I am assuming that reformatting has
- solved my problem with with bad blocks. I decided to newfs the disk drive.
- newfs displayed alternate boot blocks and came back at certain block with
- I/O error. What I am doing wrong ? What is the best way to reformat a
- disk drive so that I can make a new file system ?
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- Thanx in advance...
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- Linh Tran ltran@netcom.com
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