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On 08/09/2009 03:15 PM, Grant wrote: |
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> I get this on my laptop's internal HDD: |
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> # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda |
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> Num Test_Description Status Remaining |
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> LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error |
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> # 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 60% 12400 |
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> 149547192 |
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> after some Googling, it sounds like it's bad sectors and not |
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> necessarily cause for alarm. Does anyone have experience with this |
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> type of error? Can you suggest other tests to run, or comment on the |
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> severity of the error? |
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I have a disk that seemed very flakey in the lowest 10GB or so, even |
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when it was relatively new. I ran e2fsck with the -c and -k flags over |
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a period of time, and now I can use all of the disk with no apparent |
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problems. |
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You should read the man pages for e2fsck and badblocks before doing |
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anything, of course. |
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I've heard that SMART in newer disks is supposed to substitute bad |
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block automatically, but I don't seem to have any disks that new. |
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(Informed advice is very welcome :o) |
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