On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 09:31 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 16:41 +0300, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > > > You can verify the diagnosis with > > > > # smartctl -A /dev/sda > > > > If you have a nonzero number in one or more of the following fields > > Reallocated_Sector_Ct > > Current_Pending_Sector > > Offline_Uncorrectable > > then your hard drive is failing. Especially if you have something in > > the latter two you should panic. > > I was getting a report myself via the gui applet that my sd was failing > (this damn thing isn't even a year old), so I ran the command above.. Yes, it's going bad, so replace it if you don't want to play Russian roulette with your data. [I installed two 1.5 TB disks @work a week ago and one of them already failed.] -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
