On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 07:57:46 +0000 (UTC), Scott wrote: > For a number of weeks now I've been getting this notification (only when > in Fedora 11 & running GNOME) that "one or more disks are failing". What do you get for "smartctl --all /dev/sda"? Perhaps a non-zero and growing number of reallocated sectors? > But when I last went back to Fedora (then rawhide, now F11) it appeared > again. This only happens when running Fedora 11 in GNOME. I can confirm that Fedora 10 doesn't warn about the same disk. > My drive is exhibiting no odd behavior. It behaves as it should. I've had > drives fail many times in the past and this one is nowhere near leading > me to believe that a failure is eminent. Filesystems (see "man badblocks") and the hard-disk itself protect against a first bunch of errors that can only be worked around by reallocating/ignoring sectors. Until the hardware failures become fatal all of a sudden. Hence an early warning can be helpful. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
