[Wine] Very Strange and Probably Obscure Problem

[Martin Gregorie]

On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 07:13 -0500, dimesio wrote:
> eliwap wrote:
> > Oh.... I was thinking. Could a problem like this arise from a corrupted journal.
> > 
> 
> If smartctl says your hard drive is failing, it's failing. Modern hard
> drives have a reserved area to remap bad sectors to, and they do it
> automatically,  without telling the user. When you reach the point
> that tools like smartctl report uncorrectable sectors, that means that
> the drive has already used up all the reserved space. You have a lot
> more bad sectors on that drive than the two smartctl is reporting.
> 
FWIW, you can get a more information, including the size of the sector
reallocation table and the reallocation count by running 
"systemctl --xall /dev/sda" instead of "systemctl --all /dev/sda"
 

Martin