I'm using smartctl to monitor the health of my hard drives. This
weekend, after returning from holidays and turning my computer on, I
got email from the smartctl daemon reporting a problem.
Looking at http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/BadBlockHowTo.txt
it says in a couple of places that you
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 23:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Anyway, my question is: how does writing something to a bad block
force the disk to reallocate the block? And, is it the disc that does
this, or Linux?
When the disk itself cannot write to the block, it does the
reallocation, if
