On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Suvayu Ali wrote: > >> 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 >>> ------------------------------ > snip > I've started that, thanks. > I'll see how it goes. > > I only have 1 bad sector, > where I see that you had over 100. > Still, I'm going to back up my disk onto a USB drive. I would certainly make sure you have backups as soon as you possibly can - I have had this in the past and although the disk may run for many weeks throwing periodic smartd mails or popups at you, it could fail in a bad way at some point which may be sooner rather than later. In my case I took a backup as soon as the errors began, and no more! If the data gets corrupted and then you back up corrupted data it could lead to problems (understatement). Again what I did was get a new drive and then did a secure erase on the drive that was failing (it still was working enough to be able to do it!) - and then replaced the drive, and partitioned the new drive from scratch. Then installed a new system on it, before retrieving the backup data and getting the system operational again. Total time from first smartd impending failure messages to new system was a week - however YMMV. Good luck. Mike -- mike c -- 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
