Is SMART really that dumb?

[Roger Heflin]

That would imply the disk itself found the errors on one of its scans.

You could do a "dd if=/dev/sdx of=/dev/null conv=noerror bs=1M" that
should mean the dd will continue on when it hits the error and you will get
the list of bad sectors in the messages file.   You would have to use
fsdebugger or something similar to find the specific stuff in that sector.


On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 16:53:15 -0500
> Roger Heflin wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Yea, I poked around in the logs and the very first thing
> that looks like any kind of error is the smart message
> showing up for the first time (and repeating every
> 30 minutes since then in an attempt to fill up the logs :-).
> --
> users mailing list
> users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
> Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org