Re: SEUL: Corsica up ... sorta

[David Cary <d.cary@ieee.org>]

Ouch.
My first instinct is to attempt to back everything up off the bad
partition, unmount ("umount") that partition, reformat, and then "mount" it
again.
If you're lucky, your machine will let you do this remotely. This might be
less hassle (and less error-prone) than flipping bits with a sector-editor.

I don't even know what a "zone transfer" is.

>Corsica is back online but I have a disk problem. Maybe someone here can
>help me with some low-level disk operation.
>
>There is basicly a sequence of 16 consecutive sectors that are unuseable.
...
>What I need to know is this:
>
>1) How to determine which file is associated with a particular sector.
>2) How to convert those numbers to ext2fs block numbers
>3) How to add that block to the list of bad blocks
>4) How to do this WITHOUT bringing the system to single-user mode as
>   it is located remotely and my access is over the network.
>
>Additional note, I am having trouble pulling a zone transfer from the
>seul.org primary nameserver.  I am trying to secondary the domain but am
>having no luck with a zone transfer during nameserver reload.
...
>George Bonser

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