Bad sector

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 16:07:10 -0400,
  Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> 
> One needs backups to recover from disk failures, even just uncorrectable
> bad sectors.  There must be some tool to map a bad blocks list to the
> affected files, but I don't know what it is.

There is some information on this at:
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/BadBlockHowTo.txt

Also, if you are using software raid 1, you can copy the data for the problem
sectors from the other disk.