On 11/03/10 19:57, m.roth at 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.