RedShift wrote: > On 11/03/10 19:04, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Warren Young wrote: >>> On 11/3/2010 11:27 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>>> Yeah, but I have problems with smartmon: >>> >>> More likely, problems with SMART. S.M.A.R.T. is D.U.M.B. :) >>> >>> It's better than nothing, but sometimes not by a whole lot. >>> >>>> one server that's got two bad sectors, which SMART reports. I've >>>> followed the instructions on how to make the log messages go away, and <snip> >> No joy - it's a plain SATA drive, the root drive on a server we use for >> backups. ext3, and no, I'm not going to change filesystem types.... The >> real thing is why does SMART ignore the results of badblocks (for those >> who aren't sure, that's invoked when you do fsck -c), and for that >> matter, why the drive (Seagate ST3170811AS) doesn't automagically relocate those >> blocks. > > Auto relocation happens ONLY when writing to foobar sectors. The drive > WILL NOT relocate sectors that you are reading from because it cannot > trust the content. > > 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