On 13 September 2010 18:15, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Gilboa Davara 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 >>> ------------------------------ > >> Unreadable sector == bad sector. >> You might want to look at the smartcrl output. >> >> E.g. smartctl -a /dev/sda > > I did actually run this, > but it didn't really add anything to my knowledge. > It's strange that smartd says a disk has PASSED > at the same time that it says it has an error. > And it seems to give no hint of where the bad sector is. If you look at my first post, I mention first you need to run a long test for the output of the log to be meaningful. HTH -- 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
