Yes I have backups. I'm currently cloning the drive with Clonezilla.
We'll see how that goes. On September 11, 2025 10:54:45 AM EDT, Greg <[email protected]> wrote: >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? >
