On 2025-09-10, Andy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 01:30:47PM -0400, Bruce Halco wrote: >> Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 8 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors and Device: >> /dev/sda [SAT], 30 Offline uncorrectable sectors These seem to come within a >> day or so of a reboot, but it hasn't been long enough to know if that's a >> red herring. > > This can never be ignored and is never a false positive. It means that > the drive knows that 30 of its sectors became unreadable. The data > there, if any — it can still be space outside a filesystem — is lost. If > you have no redundancy (RAID, LVM mirror, btrfs, zfs, …) you may have > lost data.
I thought we said earlier that redundancy wasn't a backup, and vice-versa, so Bruce better have backups, no?
