Re: (update) swap space damaged?

[ktb <x.y.f@home.com>]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:16:48AM -0600, ktb wrote:
> Hi, I just dd'ed a disk to disk.  The new disk boots fine and everything
> seems OK except on boot I get the following message right after 
> "rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302" -
> wd0b:  address mark not found reading fsbn 67580 of 67580-67583 (wd0 bn
> 139323; cn 138 tn 3 sn 30), retrying
> 
> Could someone explain to me what that error message is saying or point
> me to the appropriate docs?
> I don't know what this means exactly and can't find anything in the
> archives.  
> 
> The output of "swapctl -l" is -
> Device      512-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Priority
> swap_device     133120        8   133112     0%    0
> 
> Is there any way to repair a swap partition?  Is there an equivalent to
> "mkswap" in Linux?  "man -k" isn't telling me a whole lot.

I found a reference to creating a swap file, so I tried -
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/wd0b bs=1k count=66560

That resulted in the following error -
wd0b:  address mark not found reading fsbn  22620 of 22620-22623 (wd0 bn
94363; cn 93 tn 9 sn 52), retrying

I still get the same boot error as in my original message.  Am I going
to have to reinstall from scratch? 
Thanks,
kent

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