Once upon a time, Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> said: > To me, it is a bit surprising how the failure of the hard disk can be > predicted (and with a time projection)! One of the lines you listed was the "reallocated sector count". Basically, when you buy a 500G drive, it really has more space than that. Some of the sectors are reserved and not reported to the system. When the drive detects a bad sector, it relocates it to one of the reserved sectors. Once it has relocated a certain number, it reports the drive as failing (possibly because it is out of reserved sectors to use). > I have already done a full backup. Should I wait for some days to > check out whether the alarm is true or not? Given there were a bunch of reallocated sectors, I'd replace it as soon as possible and then destroy it. -- Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
