On 13 September 2010 08:00, 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 >>> ------------------------------ > >> 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. > > Thanks for your response. > I looked up the thread you refer to, > but didn't find the responses you got particularly helpful. > Your own comments seemed much more useful. > Good to hear you found them useful. :) >>> 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. > > 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. > My errors started with 6, for some other reasons it missed my attention. And it was above 100 when I finally noticed it! So if your system is even a little critical for you, I would suggest you to explore options to RMA your drive. In my case it was my home workstation, so even though not mission critical it was very important for me. > -- > Timothy Murphy GL with everything. -- 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
