‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:50 PM, Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote:
> What Stefan said - the disk is on its way out and autorecovery of bad sectors > is failing. You could run: > > smartctl -a /dev/sda > > to see what errors it reports, but in the first instance if the data on this > disk is valuable I suggest you get another disk and immediately transfer all > useful/recoverable files off this drive. If the value of the data is not > high/irreplaceable, then carry on using it - it may take years and years > before it fails completely. > > To reallocate a bad block on your disk and hope more won't arrive overnight, > have a read at this page: > > https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/BadBlockHowto i get this output: https://gist.github.com/Al-Caveman/b3be1a623f20b55de80d0e2eddcda5d4 how to read this? seems very cryptic to me. how is this better than dmest -T? thx.