[smartmontools-support] Extended test doesn't catch CurrentPendingSector and OfflineUncorrectableSector errors

Claudio Kuenzler napsty at gmail.com
Sun Jul 11 11:00:07 CEST 2021


>
> With "smartctl -a /dev/mydevice", I can only see this information:
>
> ==========================
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always
>     -       1
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline
>      -       6
> ==========================
>
> Is there any way to know which exact sectors are affected?
>

Not with smartmontools, to my current knowledge.
But you could use "dd" or some other disk tools/commands. dd should output
when a read error occurs and should also print the sector(s). Look at the
manpage and use "noerror".
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