On 08/09/2009 03:15 PM, Grant wrote:
I get this on my laptop's internal HDD:# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 60% 12400 149547192 after some Googling, it sounds like it's bad sectors and not necessarily cause for alarm. Does anyone have experience with this type of error? Can you suggest other tests to run, or comment on the severity of the error?
I have a disk that seemed very flakey in the lowest 10GB or so, even when it was relatively new. I ran e2fsck with the -c and -k flags over a period of time, and now I can use all of the disk with no apparent problems. You should read the man pages for e2fsck and badblocks before doing anything, of course. I've heard that SMART in newer disks is supposed to substitute bad block automatically, but I don't seem to have any disks that new. (Informed advice is very welcome :o)
