3 Nov
2010
3 Nov
'10
7:06 p.m.
On 11/03/10 19:57, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
SMART reports the number of sectors that have been reallocated. That means, the drive was writing to a sector, found out it was unreliable and decided to remap that sector. It is not abnormal for drives to develop _a few_ bad sectors over the years.
Agreed. And these two bad sectors developed many months ago, and the number is not increasing, so I'm not really worried about them; all I want is to make the irritating messages in the logfiles go, and stay, away.
mark
smartd is supposed to do that. The number of reallocated sectors is a prefailure SMART attribute. If it goes up in a short time your disk is failing. You can use the -I option in smartd.conf to ignore certain attributes. See man smartd.