RedShift wrote: > 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. > > 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. But I *want* it to tell me if more appear; I just want it to stop telling me about those two, persistantly (through reboots). mark