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I am getting following disk error on one of my server

smartd[4235]: Device: /dev/sda, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors

Can i apply following command to repair bad block on live RHEL5 system .

badblocks -n -v /dev/hda1

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No. badblocks only SEARCHES for bad blocks on drive. it does not repairs them. for repair, you can use following commands:

badblocks /dev/sda1 > badblocks_list

fsck -t ext3 -l badblocks_list /dev/sda1

the first command saves the list of bad blocks in a file,which is feeded to fsck to repair.

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