On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 21:04 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 20:46:59 -0400, > Jean-Rene Cormier <jrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have 2 things here that are bugging me a little bit, first one is I'm > > starting to get some SMART errors in my logs. Just a bunch of these: > > > > Device: /dev/hda, 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors > > > > Should I be worried that my HD is gonna die soon? > > You should be worried that you may have already lost data in the unreadable > sector. > > One bad sector doesn't mean that your drive is in immenint danger of dying, > but its not a good sign either. > > In the shprt run, you should try to find out what data you have lost and > try to repair it. > > If the data or server downtime is valuable enough, you should consider getting > a replacement drive. > > If you want to continue using the drive, you will probably need to rewrite > the sector to get the drive to remap it or continue using it (depending on > how bad the problem is). It's my laptop's drive so it's not that critical though I would rather not have it fail on me and lose all the junk I've accumulated in the last months so I guess I'll do backup more often and I'll add another HD to the shopping cart in my next online order. Thanks! -- Jean-Rene Cormier <jrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
