Bad sector

[Tim]

On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 13:10 +0200, J.L. Coenders wrote:
> Smartd reports that I have bad sectors on my disk. I have tried checking it 
> with badblocks which also reports bad sectors.
> I believe I have heard it is possible to repair this in a software manner. Is 
> this true, or do I need to buy a new disk?

I'd be suspicious of any disc with bad sectors, they have a tendency to
spread.

> Btw, fsck does not report any problems.

If the bad sectors aren't anywhere where the file system is using the
drive, it wouldn't see any filing system errors.  That could be because
that part of the drive isn't in use, yet.  It could be that the bad
sectors have been mapped out of use.  That's nothing to rely on, though,
as I said, bad sectors have a tendency to expand.

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