On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 16:07:10 -0400, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > One needs backups to recover from disk failures, even just uncorrectable > bad sectors. There must be some tool to map a bad blocks list to the > affected files, but I don't know what it is. There is some information on this at: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/BadBlockHowTo.txt Also, if you are using software raid 1, you can copy the data for the problem sectors from the other disk.