CentOS - Nov 2010 - was, PATA Hard Drive woes, is "SMART"

Folks,

   Thanks a *lot* to those who suggested I try fsck -cc - that took six
hours, and at the end, I was standing there, and it tells me that
there's two back blocks, one was /dead/base.pp, and... (wait for it)
bad blocks, in node 1.

   I said yes, fix them, and rebooted, and I don't see complaints.

         mark "and there was much rejoicing"

On 11/4/2010 1:31 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>     I said yes, fix them, and rebooted, and I don't see complaints.
Good to hear it.

Minor nit: I called "fsck -cc" resilvering, but that's not in
spirit of
the term.  The name comes from the practice of taking an old mirror, 
stripping off the old protection and silver layers and reapplying fresh 
ones to make it like-new.  It's stretching the term to use it for a 
single disk instead of a RAID-1 or similar set.

Data scrubbing is more accurate.

m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Folks,
>
>     Thanks a *lot* to those who suggested I try fsck -cc - that took six
> hours, and at the end, I was standing there, and it tells me that
> there's two back blocks, one was /dead/base.pp, and... (wait for it)
> bad blocks, in node 1.
>
>     I said yes, fix them, and rebooted, and I don't see complaints.
>
>           mark "and there was much rejoicing"
you're welcome, glad I could help (for once :-) )