Got bad sector on HDD in XFS partition, any utility to mark it bad/recover it like seatools does?

[Tony Nelson]

At 12:18 PM +0100 9/6/06, Vijay Gill wrote:
>In addition to my last mail.
>
>I did the dd, got the image in a file, ran xfs_repair on it to recover
>my data. I am all sorted now as far as data is concerned.
>
>Now, I want to create xfs file system again on that partition, but I
>cannot find an option to scan and mark bad sectors during mkfs.xfs
>runs (or any other command related to xfs). I want something like what
>-c option does in mkfs.ext3.

Writing to the bad sector will remap it (on modern hard drives, last 
5 or 8 years).  Just use dd to write to the affected area or the 
whole drive.  After that, the block will no longer be "bad".

Doing a low-level format of the drive will generally cause the drive 
to skip over all bad sectors and build a new "spare sectors" area.

Modern drives can be configured to continuously test themselves via 
SMART, with the --offlineauto option to smartctl.  SMART can also 
tell you if the drive appears healthy.
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