[NCLUG] bad sector on backup disk, used as directory.

[John Gilmore]

Right, that would be easier. However, it's a 2TB disk full of backups.
I don't have anything to back it up to, and so it looks like the
debugfs route for me.

SMART claims it's not going bad, but it has been developing bad blocks
that weren't there before. If I write to the damaged sectors, it
re-allocates them and it's fine again. But in the meantime... What a
pain. I'm thinking of going with a ZFS mirrored system next time.
"Next time" of course in this case being the next time I can afford to
spend some cash on a disk...

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com> wrote:
> On 09/09/2013 06:07 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
>> Is there an easier way? If it was a file, I'd overwrite it with zeros.
>
> I'd probably just run badblocks on the whole thing, at least a pass or a
> few, and then drop a new file-system and stuff on it.
>
> Sean
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