On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 02:57 -0700, Scott Beamer wrote: > On 07/04/2009 02:41 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > 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? > > Uhhh.... > > Actually, I got (106 lines of) all this: > > $ sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda clip > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always > - 4 This means your disk is breaking down, and should be replaced soon. > 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always > - 2 > 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age > Offline - 1 And these IIRC mean that you've already lost some data. Replace the disk ASAP. -- 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