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1. mk Time Zone Appropriate Greetings , the federated universe

   oh, and btw, good morning !tzag !fediverse! I was distracted by the sight of fsck->badblocks testing the second partition on the 'bad' disk... report to follow soon!

   Sunday, 06-Jul-14 05:42:52 UTC von oracle.skilledtests.com
   • mk

     @mk here we are: badblocks test (R-W) of second partition of the 'bad' drive, which sits smack above the area where ddrescue reported 360+ of the 369 bad blocks to be... now has ZERO bad blocks!! looks like my strategy of 'scrubbing' …

     Sunday, 06-Jul-14 07:46:40 UTC
   • mk

     @mk ... and the results for the third partition: the 1 bad block found by the last pure badblock test shows up here - so still 1 bad block as opposed to 369 initially! even better, it appeared within the first 1% of testing of this pa…

     Monday, 07-Jul-14 04:57:00 UTC
   • mk

     @mk It is done! the original 'bad' disk (369 bad blocks) now only has one. It now has three partitions: one *before* the original area with the bulk of bad sectors, now error-free; one "over" the original area with bad blocks, now wit…

     Monday, 07-Jul-14 17:02:37 UTC
   • mk beer

     @mk all that's left to do is write up how I 'designed' size & position of the partitions to minimize the chances of running into bad blocks popping up again (since they were strongly clustered originally, any new ones would likely be in the same area). But first: a !beer!

     Monday, 07-Jul-14 17:05:30 UTC