"BV" == Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com writes:
BV> Pliny's still having those 'bad sector' errors BV> occasionally. Obviously it's a little worrying. :) Someone BV> suggested a nice thorough fsck could get it appropriately BV> marked bad and thus worked around; this could help once we've BV> got something to take over for pliny sensibly and we can take BV> it offline...
Gotta replace the disk. Modern hard disks mark bad sectors internally, and remaps requests to "spare" sectors. Only when a disk runs out of spare sectors will it report any sectors as "bad".
So, if you're getting bad sector errors, this means the disk has seriously degraded, and it's time to replace it.
~ESP