Systemd 219 Released With A Huge Amount Of New Features

[duby229]

Thanks, here we go:

http://sprunge.us/efMK

Yeah, that drive is dying. Time for a new one.

The pending sector count is the bad one. It means there are bad sectors that haven't been recovered and remapped yet. Those sectors still have bad data on them. Boot up to a thumb drive or a livecd and let badblocks run in r/w mode. You'll lose all your data but it will force the drive to re-allocate all bad sectors. Assuming there aren't thousands of them.

[ihatemichael]

Yeah, that drive is dying. Time for a new one.

Huh? How do you come to that conclusion?

[duby229]

Huh? How do you come to that conclusion?

The drive has bad sectors. Even if you can get SMART to re-allocate all of them, the drive should still be replaced. I would run badblocks on that drive right away, first in read mode and then once you've backed up again in r/w mode.

If there aren't too many bad sectors it will force SMART to re-allocate those.

[ihatemichael]

The drive has bad sectors. Even if you can get SMART to re-allocate all of them, the drive should still be replaced.

Where does it say that it has bad sectors?

[duby229]

Where does it say that it has bad sectors?

Right here.

5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 252 252 010 Pre-fail Always - 0

and here is the other one that means that data could still be on those sectors.

197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0

[ihatemichael]

Right here.

5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 252 252 010 Pre-fail Always - 0

and here is the other one that means that data could still be on those sectors.

197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0

How do you actually read those? Is there a reference out there?

[ihatemichael]

Oh fuck, badblocks is actually reporting bad blocks now:

[root@myhost ~]# badblocks -v /dev/sdb
Checking blocks 0 to 976762583
Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): 18853240
18853241
18853242
18853243
18853244
18853245
18853246
18853247
18853248
18853249
18853250
18853251
18853264

[duby229]

How do you actually read those? Is there a reference out there?

This is very thorough, but it has all the info you need

http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html

[duby229]

Oh fuck, badblocks is actually reporting bad blocks now:

[root@myhost ~]# badblocks -v /dev/sdb
Checking blocks 0 to 976762583
Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): 18853240
18853241
18853242
18853243
18853244
18853245
18853246
18853247
18853248
18853249
18853250
18853251
18853264

If it finds thousands of bad sectors it isn't worth trying to fix. Really best bet is get a new drive.

[ihatemichael]

Thanks, and sorry about complaining about systemd.

systemd is actually very nice.

I feel like an idiot now.