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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory Smartmontools and fixing Unreadable Disk Sectors Post 302341392 by justinian on Wednesday 5th of August 2009 08:57:27 PM
Old 08-05-2009
Smartmontools and fixing Unreadable Disk Sectors
I found a document: Bad block HOWTO for smartmontools

My hard drive is Maxtor:

root]# fdisk -lu /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders, total 160086528 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3f4e3f4d

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 63 16370234 8185086 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 16370235 160071659 71850712+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 16370298 24547319 4088511 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 24547383 160071659 67762138+ 83 Linux


root]# -H /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.38 [i586-mandriva-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is smartmontools Home Page (last updated $Date: 2009-07-30 19:33:22 +0200 (Thu, 30 Jul 2009) $)

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED


root]# smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.38 [i586-mandriva-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is smartmontools Home Page (last updated $Date: 2009-07-30 19:33:22 +0200 (Thu, 30 Jul 2009) $)

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 60% 19646 6402153
# 2 Short offline Completed: read failure 60% 19645 6402153
# 3 Short offline Completed: read failure 60% 19630 6402153
# 4 Short offline Completed: read failure 60% 19622 6402153
# 5 Extended offline Completed: read failure 40% 19618 6402153
# 6 Short offline Completed: read failure 60% 19617 6402153

Logical Block Address LBA = 6402153 and i don't known which File System Block contains this LBA ?
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

gsmartcontrol

GSmartControl(1)						   User Commands						  GSmartControl(1)

NAME

       GSmartControl - Hard disk drive health inspection tool

SYNOPSIS

       gsmartcontrol [OPTIONS]

       gsmartcontrol-root [<desktop> [OPTIONS]]

DESCRIPTION

       GSmartControl  is  a  graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-
       Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to  deter-
       mine its health, as well as run various tests on it.

       This manual page documents briefly the gsmartcontrol and gsmartcontrol-root commands.

       gsmartcontrol-root command launches gsmartcontrol with administrative privileges. The desktop argument specifies which desktop is currently
       running, for automatic selection of native su mechanism. Valid values for desktop are auto, kde, gnome, other.

OPTIONS

   Help Options:
       -?, --help
	      Show help options

       --help-all
	      Show all help options

       --help-gtk
	      Show GTK+ options

       --help-debug
	      Show logging options

   Application Options:
       -l, --no-locale
	      Disable locale

       -V, --version
	      Display version information

       --no-scan
	      Don't scan devices on startup

       --no-hide-tabs
	      Don't hide non-identity tabs when SMART is disabled. Useful for debugging.

       --add-virtual
	      Load smartctl data from file, creating a virtual drive

       --add-device
	      Add this device to device list. Useful with --no-scan to list certain drives only.

       --display=DISPLAY
	      X display to use

       -v, --verbose
	      Enable verbose logging; same as --verbosity-level 5

       -q, --quiet
	      Disable logging; same as --verbosity-level 0

       -b, --verbosity-level
	      Set verbosity level [0-5]

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2008 - 2009  Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri 'at' gmail.com>

AUTHOR

       This manual page was originally written by Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it>, for the Debian project.

gsmartcontrol															  GSmartControl(1)
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