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Date:      Sun, 28 May 2023 23:45:40 +0200 (CEST)
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To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: read and write back full disk to trigger relocation
Message-ID:  <1957739901.520492.1685310340560@ichabod.co-bxl>
In-Reply-To: <a111b6a7-0bf8-d3b9-9611-a7fbf36635b3@artem.ru>

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> From: Artem Kuchin <artem@artem.ru>
> Date: May 28, 2023, 4:12:21 AM
> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: read and write back full disk to trigger relocation
> 
> If course i can run full disk read once in a while, but i'd rather 
> prefer to read  and write the data back, so it sector
> 
> is damaged it can trigger relocation.
> 
> 

>From the dd(1) manpage:

     Do a refresh of a disk drive, in order to prevent presently recoverable
     read errors from progressing into unrecoverable read errors:

           dd if=/dev/ada0 of=/dev/ada0 bs=1m

That won't trigger relocation, but it will refresh the decaying data.

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