-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Please get in the habit of using your mail client's reply-to-all button instead of reply; there is no need for us to take this conversation private.
On 11/17/2014 10:15 PM, Fennec Fox wrote: <snip big smartctl output> > i know the drive is dying and needs replacing but i need to keep > this drive arround for some time longer as i cant run from a 32 > gb usb far too slow If it were just a few bad sectors, then you could deal with that by writing to them, which would force the drive to reallocate them from the spare pool. I'd suggest you dd /dev/zero all over the drive so everything is written to, then check the smart stats again. If there were no write errors, and the smart stats show zero pending sectors, then everything has been reallocated and you should be ok to reformat the drive and use it. As I said before though, the errors you posted from dmesg don't indicate that the drive failed to read sectors, but rather that it returned incorrect data, and this is *NEVER* supposed to happen. I'd suggest running a few passes of badblocks over the drive, testing writing different patterns and verifying that they read back correctly. If it can't do that, then there's nothing for it but to junk the drive. badblocks -b 4096 -c 256 -s -t 00 /dev/sda That will read the drive and verify that it is full of zeros. If that passes, write a different pattern to the disk and verify that reads back correctly: badblocks -b 4096 -c 256 -s -w /dev/sda -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUa2duAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrw+0AIAJNAqF1rY2m5Oalehr3dz+G4 O6h9XERRiTl8GVMgcj7ZybeP3sFroItgiki5UdhRsjNoPEPRQpv3hApY7p2cEUtk yNn8jAeRBjA0kli+5HMHY3eHL4RmLO3mrLmNoAu5HShvWBE4zj/18vvk15m/u5rj SnrxBUSQ91V0D6p/CFkjAX9iBZBoWx4+J7Wz8EOhqnFJbqXaCEOdj7NKrjQ/7r+Q 5gxQWD4x54NQSGPfexERtRRaL9drE3JoLTbOEC+xdt7a9MwHw5Z50DTfMRzibpFP kdKlRCLMzcNGXSVt/187MMbpvROXBWhfmAAFOCz5rGtrGjX3V6+/7hpPBn5ft3E= =L5No -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
