On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang.rupprecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 013 013 036 Pre-fail >> Always FAILING_NOW 3587 > > What the other respondents missed is that this is the *reallocated* > sector count. It is a count of the sectors that have already been > replaced by spares. There are no unreadable files currently. The > replacement only happens on writes, so you are probably seeing freshly > written, pristine files. > > As to the haste you should replace the disk with, that all depends on > how the sectors got trashed in the first place. If you moved the > computer while it was up and writing to the disk the arm could have been > jiggled onto the next track during the write. I know that happens with > 3-1/2" drives. I was seeing an ever increasing reallocated sectors on > my desktop machine until I traced the lossage back to me tilting the > case forward in order to get easier access to the connectors on the > back. > > Another computer, my laptop has had 6 reallocated sectors since the > first few weeks after I got it. That was 7+ years ago. The disk is > still going strong with no increase in reallocated sector count (or > pending reallocation sector count) in all those years. Stable > reallocated counts shouldn't bother you too much. It is when they go up > that you should be concerned. > > On the other hand, I do nightly rsync backups to a spare disk. > According to google, which probably has more disks that the NSA, only > half of the disk drive deaths are preceded by smartmon saying anything. I thank you, Wolfgang, and all other people who have helped me so much with this issue. I have now a new disk installed in my machine, and I was successful with copying the content of the old disk to the new one with Clonezilla, which is a great tool to clone disks. I will follow your recommendations and I will try to recover the old disk with badblocks -w as suggested. Paul -- 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
