-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2017-11-02 at 22:17 -0000, Wols Lists wrote:
On 01/11/17 21:30, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Thus, in order to find out the LBA address of the bad sectors and rewrite them I run "badblocks". And then, contrary to the common knowledge, when I do that the bad sectors disappear and SMART reports no pending sectors (!). I do not have an explanation, only that it has happened to me every time I tried since I remember (say three years back) and others.
That sounds like "badblocks -n". The possibility, also, is that badblocks triggers the drive to do a rewrite internally.
But I did not use any option.
When the bad sectors disappear, does the data stored in those sectors disappear at the same time?
Good question. I think data should disapear, but as I could not find out which sectors were bad, I could not find out if they were in use and by what. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAln7m2YACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XMrACdGsbi8SA1BKly9hn1HqwG71+R Jl8AniJvmPwTqUgvuJ8xd5aiPFHkmWXM =hp3t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org