[Discuss] 1 offline uncorrectable sectors detected

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:16:32AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I occasionally get the following message from smartd:
> 
> Offline uncorrectable sectors detected:
>  	/dev/sdc [SAT] - 48 Time(s)
>  	1 offline uncorrectable sectors detected
> 
> 
> smartctl -H reports
> ** sdc : SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
> 
> This is my backup drive so it is not critical to my operation.

What, really?

Doesn't it suddenly become critical once whatever it is backing
up fails?


-dsr-