thanks for the help, Tony. i finally checked the results of cat'ing to /dev/null, which found 11 troubled files. having removed them, am now running smartctl -t on umounted disk.
# tar -cvf - --ignore-failed-read --one-file-system / \ 2>/some/other/volume/tarfiles.txt | cat >/dev/null
Good luck.
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ah... perhaps this will let me check dir files... will try after the smartctl test.....
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