On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:15:14PM -0400, Ricflomag wrote: > > >>I have run a "badblocks -nvs > >>/dev/sdb3<https://one.ubuntu.com/dev/sdb3>", > >>it did not find any error... And after this, SMART still reports 4 pending > >>sectors. > >Meaning the pending sectors are someplae else. > > > >>Any clue about how investigating further ? > >badblocks on /dev/sdb. > > > >Arno > That would tell me where the pending sectors are, outside of the > luks partition. But it would not help to know why the luks partition > fails to open, would it ? It should not. However, the disk is suspect. Solve that first. Defective storage (or hardware in general) can cause all sorts of strange effects. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
