Got bad sector on HDD in XFS partition, any utility to mark it bad/recover it like seatools does?

[Tony Nelson]

At 12:03 PM -0500 9/6/06, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 16:26:29 +0100,
>   Vijay Gill <vijay.s.gill at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > Thanks Tony, that cleared a lot about smarttools also a lot. I always
>  > used to wonder about how smarttools can be used to fix a hdd bad
>  > sector. Now I learned from your mail that just writing to the bad area
>  > of the disk will fix it because disks are intelligent enough these
>  > days. smarttools is used for just diagnosis purposes.
>  > Also I am goinng to put
>  > smartctl --smart=on --offlineauto=on --saveauto=on /dev/hda in my
>  > /etc/rc.local.
>
>You should be running the smartd deamon to do this instead of adding stuff
>to rc.local for it. If smartmontools is installed, you can edit the list
>of disk drives to scan in /etc/smartd.conf and turn on the smartd service
>using chkconfig or the GUI for system services.

Smartd.conf is described in man smartd.

Also, --offlineauto and --saveauto are persistent settings in the 
disk drive's firmware, so they really only need to be set once.
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