Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) Home Page. Handling bad blocks is a difficult problem as it often involves decisions about losing information. Modern storage devices tend to handle the simple cases automatically, for example by writing a disk sector that was read with difficulty to another area on the media. Even though such a remapping can be done by a disk drive transparently, there is still a lingering worry about media deterioration and the disk running out of spare sectors to remap. Can smartmontools help? As the SMART acronym [1] suggests, the smartctl command and the smartd daemon concentrate on monitoring and analysis. So apart from changing some reporting settings, smartmontools will not modify the raw data in a device. Also smartmontools only works with physical devices, it does not know about partitions and file systems.
So other tools are needed. This section contains examples of what to do at the file system level when smartmontools reports a bad block. Root]# grep hda3 /etc/fstab /dev/hda3 /data ext2 defaults 1 2. Bad block HOWTO for smartmontools. Atola Technology. Your source of information about Hard Drives. Copyright and Disclaimer This manual cannot be sold or published anywhere. As I am trying to make it useful, it is much better to give a link to this page instead of copying something from here. You may distribute MHDD without any limitations while you preserve copyrights.
You can disassemble (reverse-engineer) MHDD for educational purposes. You cannot sell MHDD program or any its part. © 2005 Dmitry Postrigan DISCLAIMER: Use this software as is. Contents About the MHDD project MHDD is the small and powerful freeware tool to work with hard drives at the lowest possible level. Now MHDD is much more than just diagnostic. Getting MHDD When you need fresh copy of MHDD, please always use website.
Documentation is web-based to make it always up-to-date. What is inside of MHDD package After the first run log/mhdd.log file will be created automatically. If you download and extract a boot floppy or CD image you will have DR-DOS system files too. How it works Just look at this. Platform: 1.