Is SMART really that dumb?

[Roger Heflin]

I have never found a way to get smart to report what specific sectors
is pending.

You can do a smartctl -l long against the device and generally it will
stop when it hits that sector.

Also usually the errors are found by linux doing a read against it, so
there should be error messages on the reads in the messages file when
it happened, that is usually what I use to determine what sectors are
getting the error.



On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, SMART reports it has N pending sectors. This must mean
> it knows exactly which sectors those are, but nothing in
> the SMART interface is willing to tell you what sectors it
> is talking about?
>
> You could maybe correlate them with the filesystem
> structures and find out what files they might be
> affecting (or if they are just in free space),
> but that's not useful information for SMART to report?
>
> Please tell me I'm the one who is an idiot and I've
> just overlooked the obvious here :-).
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