Re: [smartmontools-support]Problem with BadBlockHowto method...

[Bruce A. <ba...@gr...>]

If you provide some notes on your calculations (or construct an 'example')=
=20
I'll gladly add it to BadBlocksHowTo.

Cheers,
 =09Bruce

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, [ISO-8859-15] Fr=E9d=E9ric BOITEUX wrote:

> =09Hello Manfred and Bruce,
>
>  Thanks for your tip, you're right ! I did find the faulty filesystem blo=
ck
> (correct number and size), rewrite zeros in it, and the bad block was
> reallocated :-)
>  I'll note this interesting point in my log..
>
>  For the point 1), I didn't find 'oflag=3Ddirect' in my Sarge's dd man pa=
ge, but
> I think the problem I had was directly related to the 2), where the syste=
m read
> a whole filesystem block (4096 bytes here) when you ask for a single 512 =
bytes
> block.
>
>  I had some difficulties to find the right filesystem block number from t=
he
> LBA block number because it was located in a LVM2 partition, and after I
> located the logical partition with faulty block, I had an offset of 48 (?=
) in
> my faulty block address calculation...
>
>  Anyway, I've found defect files and reallocated the bad block, very nice=
 !
>
> =09Have a nice day,
> =09=09Fr=E9d=E9ric Boiteux.
>