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Special Forums Hardware What are the possible action regarding having bad sector in my ext4 root partition? Post 302564077 by jao_madn on Wednesday 12th of October 2011 07:21:58 PM
Old 10-12-2011
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Originally Posted by Corona688
First off, understand that modern hard drives ("modern" as in "last 15-25 years") have bad-sector remapping. When they spot a sector going bad, they take its contents and put it in a 'spare' location without telling you. So: your hard drive doesn't have a bad sector.

It has so many bad sectors that it's run out of spares. That could be a quarter of the drive or more, gone bad. This drive is not safe to use. Get your data off and stop using it before it betrays you.

You can't low-level format anymore. The densities they have these days, they only have the precision to do that at the factory. Dead sectors are dead for keeps.

A 'sector' is just a collection of zeroes and ones, there's not a magic combo of 512 bytes that makes a sector go bad. dd_rescue is safe. bad sectors can't be transferred. dd_rescue can't even read them, it fills in zeroes and skips.

Did you dd the entire disk, or just the partition?

Thanks for the reply

I ddrescue the partition only in which is root,
I just concern with my root since all the programs bin location.
Am i right doing a partition dd image on my root partition and rsync to external the home files or partition
 

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hdio(7I)							  Ioctl Requests							  hdio(7I)

NAME
hdio - SMD and IPI disk control operations SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/hdio.h> DESCRIPTION
Note - The SMC and IPI drivers have been discontinued. dkio(7I) is now the preferred method for retrieving disk information. The SMD and IPI disk drivers supplied with this release support a set of ioctl(2) requests for diagnostics and bad sector information. Basic to these ioctl() requests are the definitions in <sys/hdio.h>. IOCTLS
HDKIOCGTYPE The argument is a pointer to a hdk_type structure (described below). This ioctl() gets specific information from the hard disk. HDKIOCSTYPE The argument is a pointer to a hdk_type structure (described below). This ioctl() sets specific information about the hard disk. /* * Used for drive info */ struct hdk_type { ushort_t hdkt_hsect; /* hard sector count (read only) */ ushort_t hdkt_promrev; /* prom revision (read only) */ uchar_t hdkt_drtype; /* drive type (ctlr specific) */ uchar_t hdkt_drstat; /* drive status (ctlr specific, ro) */ }; HDKIOCGBAD The argument is a pointer to a hdk_badmap structure (described below). This ioctl() is used to get the bad sector map from the disk. HDKIOCSBAD The argument is a pointer to a hdk_badmap structure (described below). This ioctl() is used to set the bad sector map on the disk. /* * Used for bad sector map */ struct hdk_badmap { caddr_t hdkb_bufaddr; /* address of user's map buffer */ }; HDKIOCGDIAG The argument is a pointer to a hdk_diag structure (described below). This ioctl() gets the most recent command that failed along with the sector and error number from the hard disk. /* * Used for disk diagnostics */ struct hdk_diag { ushort_t hdkd_errcmd; /* most recent command in error */ daddr_t hdkd_errsect; /* most recent sector in error */ uchar_t hdkd_errno; /* most recent error number */ uchar_t hdkd_severe; /* severity of most recent error */ }; SEE ALSO
ioctl(2), dkio(7I) SunOS 5.10 13 Aug 2002 hdio(7I)
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