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Additional info. I got the data moved and a smaller drive removed from |
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the LVM setup. I decided to play with badblocks a bit and test the old |
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drive. I'm testing with destructive patterns since that should |
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effectively erase data. The old drive reported a few errors. I did |
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some googling and found out that SMART can interfere with badblocks. |
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Basically, it accesses the drive and that creates errors. I found it |
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odd but decided I'd restart the test and see. If it had a bad block, it |
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would still be bad. I redid the test and so far, it has reported no |
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errors. It seems what I found does happen. |
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So, if anyone is running badblocks, make sure to turn off SMART for that |
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device until the tests have completed. Otherwise you could get negative |
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results. This is the command I'm using. |
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badblocks -wsv -b 4096 /dev/sdb |
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If you copy and paste, make sure to edit the device. When this is all |
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done, I may post some further details. Oh, my frequent commands file is |
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growing. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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