On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 07:13 -0500, dimesio wrote: > eliwap wrote: > > Oh.... I was thinking. Could a problem like this arise from a corrupted journal. > > > > If smartctl says your hard drive is failing, it's failing. Modern hard > drives have a reserved area to remap bad sectors to, and they do it > automatically, without telling the user. When you reach the point > that tools like smartctl report uncorrectable sectors, that means that > the drive has already used up all the reserved space. You have a lot > more bad sectors on that drive than the two smartctl is reporting. > FWIW, you can get a more information, including the size of the sector reallocation table and the reallocation count by running "systemctl --xall /dev/sda" instead of "systemctl --all /dev/sda" Martin
