On Monday 13 September 2010 05:38 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Yesterday I got an internal email from smartd telling me > of an error on one disk (on my server): > ------------------------------ > Device: /dev/sdb, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors > ------------------------------ > I'm getting a copy of this email every hour. > > I'm not sure how serious a warning like this is. A few weeks back I saw a similar warning and my disk started showing bad signs within a few days. RMA it as soon as possible! You can take a look at the archives for my posts under "understanding smart logs" around the 15th of August. > Also, I don't know how I can discover > on which partition the problem occurs. > That might be trickier. You can find out the failing block number and deduce the partition from the SMART logs. Try doing a long offline test, and look at the logs. # smartctl -t long /dev/sdb # to start the tests # smartctl -a /dev/sdb # to see the results > Any advice or suggestions gratefully received. > GL -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
