Re: Offline uncorrectable sectors

2015-08-18 Thread Chris Murphy
https://www.smartmontools.org/browser/trunk/www/badblockhowto.xml This will help you figure out what data is in the bad sector, and whether it's important or replaceable from a backup. Note that this is an AF drive, specifically 512e variety. 512 bytes logical sector, 4096 bytes physical sector.

SV: Offline uncorrectable sectors

2015-08-17 Thread birger
Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors >- > >(Please, find below the output of smartctl -a /dev/sda) > >Is that a serious problem? What should I do? > >Thanks in advance, > >Paul > >- > ># smart

Re: Offline uncorrectable sectors

2015-08-17 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > I am getting the following warning on a terminal window (F22, : > > - > WARNING: Your hard drive is failing > Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors > - >

Re: Offline uncorrectable sectors

2015-08-16 Thread Martin Cigorraga
Hi all, I would like to add that there's a convenient utility shipped with Fedora (at least with the GNOME version) called 'Disks' that helps you tweak some of your disk options as well as check its health state by showing the SMART information. Cheers. On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Tom Hors

Re: Offline uncorrectable sectors

2015-08-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 10:51:00 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Buy a new hard drive, hopefully you'll receive it and be able to copy all of > your data from this one, before your current hard drive turns into a brick. Yea, it took a while for my drive to get more than 1 uncorrectable sector, but o

Re: Offline uncorrectable sectors

2015-08-16 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Paul Smith writes: Dear All, I am getting the following warning on a terminal window (F22, : - WARNING: Your hard drive is failing Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors - (Please, find below the output of smartctl -a /dev/sda

Offline uncorrectable sectors

2015-08-16 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I am getting the following warning on a terminal window (F22, : - WARNING: Your hard drive is failing Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors - (Please, find below the output of smartctl -a /dev/sda) Is that a serious