Re: SMART error (OfflineUncorrectableSector) detected on host:

[Dominique Dumont <dominique.dumont@hp.com>]

Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com> writes:

> On Tue November 25 2008, you wrote:
> from syslog:
> # grep sdb syslog
> Nov 25 08:26:14 hostname smartd[3968]: Device: /dev/sdb, 1 Currently 
> unreadable (pending) sectors 
>
> Nov 25 08:26:14 hostname smartd[3968]: Device: /dev/sdb, 1 Offline 
> uncorrectable sectors 
>
> does this mean my drive is bad?? it is only a few months old.. new 500Gb SATA.

This means that one sector of your disk can't be read. So one of your
files has a 512 bytes hole. 

See SMART FAQ to fix the problem:

http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/faq.html#selftest-failed
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/faq.html#corrupt-sectors

All the best

-- 
Dominique Dumont 
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