Bad sectors on harddisk (question)

Henry Spencer henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 16 23:13:30 UTC 2003


On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, William Park wrote:
> What is conventional wisdom when you encounter bad sectors on harddisk?
> Is there better way of 
>     - identifying bad sectors (/var/log/syslog says so).
>     - then mapping them out, so that filesystem does not use them.

The recommended method for the second step is to *immediately* make a full
backup and replace the disk drive.  Blocks do not go bad for no reason
during disk operation; the appearance of new bad blocks almost always
means the disk is starting to die. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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