<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Ubuntu 20.04</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">smartctl v7.1</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I have a failing(failed, really) Seagate Constellation ES.3 SAS drive which has used up all of its spare blocks for grown defects. I would like to read the entire background media scan log to see with LBAs were unrecoverable in order to attempt to determine which files are affected. However, smartctl -x or -l background truncates the output with:</div><div><br></div><div>>>>> log truncated, fetched 16124 of 51476 available bytes</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Full output available here: <a href="https://pastebin.com/JGmGjsEi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://pastebin.com/JGmGjsEi</a></div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone know how I can read the entire background media scan log?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for taking your time to read this.</div></div><br></div></div></body></html>