input/output error on disk(?)
Robert Nichols
rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net
Sat Oct 17 07:26:00 UTC 2009
charles zeitler wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:49 PM, charles zeitler <cfzeitler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> thanks for the help, Tony.
>> i finally checked the results of cat'ing to /dev/null,
>> which found 11 troubled files. having removed them,
>> am now running smartctl -t on umounted disk.
>>
>>> # tar -cvf - --ignore-failed-read --one-file-system / \
>>> 2>/some/other/volume/tarfiles.txt | cat >/dev/null
>>>
>>> Good luck.
>>>
>>> --
> second try of smartctl -t yielded the same results-
> i may have removed files from 11 bad blocks-
> and missed the first.
>
> am now running the tar seq. above (fingers crossed)
SMART has no idea whether a sector has been allocated to a file or
not. The test will continue to find the same bad sectors until
writes to those sectors occur, which will allow the drive to remap
them to spare sectors.
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