From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99EE013877A for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 07:43:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED47DE08EE; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 07:43:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yh0-f49.google.com (mail-yh0-f49.google.com [209.85.213.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D6B02E08D3 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 07:43:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yh0-f49.google.com with SMTP id f73so927933yha.8 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:43:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=cSsLs0yHnDZ8Hu4NHRqnSoXYsEepBujzdmIi0fmHl3s=; b=iWEOFJVOlR+sG2kv9NMcivcfwWoZ+s376eU8KHoIWcQTVZGWMlOrR9oBxEJm7g5H0w Emim05HgIAgl6dxMK5Uqjxx8Uteu4fCgCS5gkHRwjby87ns782nnClzIp/1PEhvtKhd5 l6n4ciSZFglaBwK6JMWNTiwSF1yQ7eHTL8teebucPqQTl4hDevOexpDVUMkY63p63Un9 Rl/5pMvXM6BsROp41xtFegg2sQcIAM5B8ofALsPC5I/QRj08KbW9zCl2LJawlva0E6VO Girleu1lZ1xFbyvzC6JK62Qy1KvfksqtnBxcx3mlhlqW448CMcRYcnJ+cPpImiZPBvej wbrA== X-Received: by 10.236.221.162 with SMTP id r32mr9026791yhp.94.1403682207966; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:43:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-117-239.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.117.239]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id c47sm2263799yhh.49.2014.06.25.00.43.27 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:43:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53AA7D9E.4060103@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:43:26 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 SeaMonkey/2.25 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60% References: <53AA050F.4070907@gmail.com> <49620f42-d9c3-43b1-9f01-1250e52eb950@email.android.com> <53AA587F.8090300@gmail.com> <8657ca17-4c68-4b96-af12-479417fec6f5@email.android.com> In-Reply-To: <8657ca17-4c68-4b96-af12-479417fec6f5@email.android.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3d8f6e0d-6f9f-4afc-8221-027cbe79047b X-Archives-Hash: 5241a1aba1b364c7f27c8bdceba1002e J. Roeleveld wrote: >> There are some options with smartctl you could try to force the drive >> to swap that bad sector with a spare one. A full disk read could also >> force that. Eg. Try ' dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/null '. But, I usually >> order a replacement when Smart tests start throwing errors. I know >> 3TB is a lot for you to have to backup, but it's also a lot of data >> to loose... -- Joost I just don't have anything to put the data on. I been saying I was going to get me a backup drive but hadn't yet. Looks like I better order one unless someone pops on and says this is normal and OK, sort of doubting that will happen tho. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!