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

Ray Andrews wrote:
> It does seem strange that with all the robust tools available in NIX,
> that when you loose a sector that it's an ordeal to figure out what's
> been corrupted.  However slow, one might expect that there'd be a
> utility to figure it out even if it had to read the entirety of whatever
> it is  that is the analogue of the old FAT until it had found all the
> files.

I use GNU ddrescue to check for bad blocks, do disk images and try to 
recover bad blocks with read retries:

https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/
(On Debian/Ubuntu, it is in the package gddrescue)

To check which files are affected by bad blocks, I typically use 
ifind/istat/ffind from TSK:

https://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/

Ddrutility provides a script which automates this (I didn't test this yet):

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ddrutility/

Regards,
Christian


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