On Thursday, April 12, 2012 10:13:00 AM m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Time to use smartctl, if not fsck -c. Another useful fsck variation is fsck -cc which will do a nondestructive 'read-write' to trigger on-drive bad sector remapping. Takes a long time to do, but does the work. It's documented in the man page under the '-c' option's paragraph, last sentence.