one or more disks failling

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-11-13 15:12:18, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 15:04:52 -0500,
>   Tait Clarridge <tait at clarridge.ca> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 06:33 +1100, L wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I got a disk health warning from palimpsest disk utility "one or
> > > more disks failling". It showed this disk has a bad sector. How 
> > > can I check what partion is the sector located?
> > > or any fix?
> > > 
> > > best
> > > Y
> > > 
> > 
> > Backup all data you can and get a new hard drive. That's probably
> > thebest solution at this point.
> 
> If you have lots of money that's the recommended solution.
> However if it's just one bad sector you may not even be able to RMA
> the drive under warranty.
> 
> You can use the smartctl  (from smartmontools) to see how many bad
> sectors you had had so far and how many of those are pending for 
> remapping.
> 
> Depending on the file system on the device the following may help you
> find out if any of your bad sectors are in files:
> http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html

Also, it can help to enable Automatic Offline Testing (with `smartctl
-o on /dev/sdx`), which will scan the disk frequently and will often
be able to remap a sector before it becomes unreadable.

Removing Palimpsest (gnome-disk-utility) is the most practical way to 
make it not complain foolishly.  Instead, use smartd, from the same 
package as smartctl (smartmontools); it can be set up to only complain 
about real problems.

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