Nico,
> > [...]
> > FWIW, after reading this thread, I've slightly modified smartmontools so
> > that when smartctl prints the error log (-l error) it ALSO prints the LBA
> > at which a READ or WRITE command failed.
>
> Thank you very much for patching smartctl and explaining howto calulate
> the LBA from those values.
FWIW, I've just posted a short howto explaining how to identify the file
stored at the bad sector, and how to force sector reallocation at the bad
LBA. This will effectively 'repair' the disk though you will lose the
data in that disk block. Please see:
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/BadBlockHowTo.txt
Comments gratefully incorporated.
Cheers,
Bruce
Bruce,
thank you for the nice explanation! It's very easy to understand and
perhaps you should include this document into the next release of
smartmontools.
I think there might even be a need for a "Hard-Disk-Failure-Howto".
Anyone here wants to write it, has data for something like that?
Nico
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