Hi, After running smartctl for an extended offline test I got a badblock (information extracted from the report):
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 14460 4288352511 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1 I found a explanation to map the LBA to a partition here: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html My partition layout is: #> sudo fdisk -lu /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x07ec16a2 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 104447 51200 83 Linux /dev/sda2 104448 12687359 6291456 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 12687360 222402559 104857600 83 Linux /dev/sda4 222402560 1953525167 865561304 5 Extended /dev/sda5 222404608 232890367 5242880 83 Linux /dev/sda6 232892416 442607615 104857600 83 Linux /dev/sda7 442609664 652324863 104857600 83 Linux /dev/sda8 652326912 862042111 104857600 83 Linux /dev/sda9 862044160 1071759359 104857600 83 Linux /dev/sda10 1071761408 1281476607 104857600 83 Linux /dev/sda11 1281478656 1491193855 104857600 83 Linux /dev/sda12 1491195904 1953525167 231164632 83 Linux 4288352511 <<< The number reported by smartctl Following the linked document... It seems the bad LBA is not on the checked harddisk. Or (more obvious) I did something wrong... How can I correctly identify the partition, which contains the bad block? How can I get a full list of all bad blocks (if any) from a mounted file systems? How severe is the problem? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Best regards, mcc
