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Andrei Borzenkov composed on 2017-09-04 06:27 (UTC+0300):
Felix Miata composed:
Badblocks 1.42.11 on the WD Green AV HD has reached 51.26% completion with (4/0/0 errors) in 65:25:00, 4 bad sectors in sequence, but the log's block numbers have me somewhat perplexed. The output was continuing with 0/0/0 until well after 41.8% was reached. Now the log shows:
984662252 984662253 984662254 984662255
As I didn't specify -b4096 (and should have, given its sloth), those numbers look like they must be badblocks' own default 1024b block size numbers rather than logical sector numbers or filesystem block numbers, not really what I would expect it to log on a filesystem formatted with 4k block size (as tune2fs reports).
How is filesystem block size related? badblocks works with device,
It's not that hard to confuse concepts of filesystem and device when working in a state of frustration over a single process estimated to consume 5+ days. :-( Quoting myself from https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2017-09/msg00045.html 1 Sep 2017 17:15:43 -0400 I have running now: badblocks -o bb-wd20eurs -s -n /dev/sdb1
not filesystem. From the man page "For this reason, it is strongly recommended that users not run badblocks directly, but rather use the -c option of the e2fsck and mke2fs programs Knowing it would be a lengthy process, I wanted to start badblocks before going to bed, hours after I should already have been in bed asleep. Whether I actually saw that, was oblivious to it, ignored it, or other, I hazard to guess.
Another thing: I don't see in the badblocks man page what the components of (#/#/#) are supposed to represent. :-(
Count of (read errors, write errors, corruption errors) where "corruption" means block read from device differs from block written to device.
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