Comments on: Hard disk failure: Additional sense: Unrecovered read error – auto reallocate failed http://linos.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/hard-disk-failure-additional-sense-unrecovered-read-error-auto-reallocate-failed/ Linux Ubuntu Laptop Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:36:44 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Olli Salli http://linos.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/hard-disk-failure-additional-sense-unrecovered-read-error-auto-reallocate-failed/#comment-71 Olli Salli Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:11:27 +0000 http://linos.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/hard-disk-failure-additional-sense-unrecovered-read-error-auto-reallocate-failed/#comment-71 You should use the -p (preserve permissions) flag to tar in these kinds of use cases exactly of this reason ;) I found your blog entry by googling for similar error messages I'm now getting from my laptop. However, it's still running... somewhat. Disk I/O hangs for a few seconds once in every 5-10 minutes or so and dmesg gets appended with a few disk errors like yours. Currently doing backup of /home first, then if I can get there, full / ... time to call Lenovo for a replacement HDD in any case, I guess. You should use the -p (preserve permissions) flag to tar in these kinds of use cases exactly of this reason ;)

I found your blog entry by googling for similar error messages I’m now getting from my laptop. However, it’s still running… somewhat. Disk I/O hangs for a few seconds once in every 5-10 minutes or so and dmesg gets appended with a few disk errors like yours. Currently doing backup of /home first, then if I can get there, full / … time to call Lenovo for a replacement HDD in any case, I guess.

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