Unreadable Sectors
Apr 4, 2009what the below means, should i be worried about this error?
Currently unreadable (pending) sectors detected:
/dev/sdb - 38 Time(s)
1 unreadable sectors detected
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In Messages Log :: Currently Unreadable (pending) Sectors
Jun 13, 2008I found these lines in my messages log:
Jun 13 16:04:43 vilabr smartd[2564]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Jun 13 16:04:43 vilabr smartd[2564]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Offline uncorrectable sectors
Jun 13 16:34:43 vilabr smartd[2564]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Jun 13 16:34:43 vilabr smartd[2564]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Offline uncorrectable sectors
Jun 13 17:04:43 vilabr smartd[2564]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Jun 13 17:04:43 vilabr smartd[2564]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Offline uncorrectable sectors
Jun 13 17:34:43 vilabr smartd[2564]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Jun 13 17:34:43 vilabr smartd[2564]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Offline uncorrectable sectors
Jun 13 18:04:43 vilabr smartd[2564]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Jun 13 18:04:43 vilabr smartd[2564]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Offline uncorrectable sectors
Jun 13 18:34:43 vilabr smartd[2564]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Jun 13 18:34:43 vilabr smartd[2564]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Offline uncorrectable sectors
Jun 13 19:04:43 vilabr smartd[2564]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Jun 13 19:04:43 vilabr smartd[2564]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Offline uncorrectable sectors
Jun 13 19:34:43 vilabr smartd[2564]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Jun 13 19:34:43 vilabr smartd[2564]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Offline uncorrectable sectors
What does it mean?
Check And Mark Bad HD Sectors
Oct 30, 2009Loaded Ubuntu 9.10 last night and on first boot it tells me my HD have bad sectors. Which is nice, good reporting from the new Ubuntu edition.
So I kicked off "badblocks -f -v -s /dev/sda" this morning before I took off to work using SystemRescue CD. Came home during lunch and it is still running, looks like it is going to take forever.
This is a 500GB HD, I don't intend to buy a new one. I just want all the bad sectors marked so OS don't ever use them again. Is there a better utility than *nix badblocks?