On 06/19/2010 09:56 PM, Peter Langfelder was caught red-handed while writing:: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:04 PM, JD<jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> Well, I am not actively using the disk. Too risky. >> I am trying to find out if there is reasonable doubt >> as to what the smartd is reporting as if the are recent >> errors. >> At this point I will try to see if it is still >> under warranty and have it serviced. >> > You may want to consider using fsck to check for bad sectors within > your filesystem(s). This will definitely not report bad sectors that > were marked as such by the manufacturer. But it may take more time > than finding out whether smart reports them. > > Peter > I thought fsck simply checks the metadata of the filesystem, free blocks and allocated blocks, cylinder groups, inodes...etc. So, it is not clear that fsck will detect new bad blocks. I read about the old days when the drives did not do auto bad block forwarding (re-mapping). There was a low level formatter which actually detected the bad blocks and remapped them. Unfortunately for today, once the drive runs out of spare good blocks to forward bad blocks to, throw it away. I really wish there was such a low level formatter for today's drives. It would extend the life of a drive a little longer. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
