From: Gordon@leaf.net.nz   
      
   On 2025-07-25, Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
   > On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:47:51 +1000, Felix wrote:   
   >   
   >> How does LM treat HD bad sectors?   
   >   
   > You have to specify a list of them to be excluded from file allocations   
   > when you initialize a filesystem on the disk. Note the -c option in mke2fs   
   >, which tells it to do a scan to   
   > find these for itself. Or the -l option to get a list of them from a   
   > separate file.   
   >   
   > Frankly, I wouldn’t like to touch a disk with bad blocks on it. Once they   
   > start happening, they’re only likely to get worse.   
      
   Agreed. Once a HD starts to fail it is only a matter of time before it will   
   take your data.   
      
   The blocks fail on the so called bath tub curve (Backblaze)   
      
   https://www.backblaze.com/blog/drive-failure-over-time-the-batht   
   b-curve-is-leaking/   
      
   More at   
      
   https://darwinsdata.com/how-likely-is-a-hdd-to-fail/   
      
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