Re: how to control how often smartd-runner fires.

On 18/01/17 05:45 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> How?  I've presumed that bad sectors are bad sectors forever.
>
> No, they get relocated.

Yeah I know, I meant the actual physical sectors.
>
> Hard disks have an area dedicated since manufacture to relocate bad
> sectors, automatically when trying to write to a bad sector. The pending
> sector value means just that: they are marked for realocation the
> instant you try to read them, and there is a count of them.

Thanks, I wondered exactly how that worked.  Strange the disk doesn't 
just get it over with tho.
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> How to do that?
>
> One method is backup the affected partition, fill it up with zeroes with
> dd, format and restore.
>
> However, just running "badblocks" on it may do the trick.
Nuts, 14 partitions on the disk :-( Oh, well, that's still a good idea.
But any ideas as to my original issue?  I'd still like to be able to 
control how often
smartd-runner runs.
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