ke4nt1

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Posted: Jan. 21 2005,03:23 |
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If you know at what point , percentage-wise, the bad sectors are on your drive, you could partition it in half ( make 2 partitions - equal size ) , then skip the half that has the bad sectors, and run mkswap /dev/hdXx , and then swapon /dev/hdXx on the good half.. ( hdXx = your drive - possibly hda1 or hda2 )
That would give some swap , and a little more use out of the drive before it fails completely.. Usually, when they start to go, they go quickly...
73 ke4nt
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