Re: Getting rid of pending sectors

"Carlos E. R." <[email protected]> Sat, 22 Oct 2016 23:29:53 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 2016-10-22 20:03, Orsiris de Jong wrote:

> I’ve tried to force the firmware to reallocate the sectors by reading them.

As far as I know, it only happens on write.

My brute force approach is to write to the entire partition with zeroes.
Example:

  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb7 bs=10M

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)

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