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".
I first saw this a few months back. Since that time, I've reformatted the
Linux partitions and installed other distros (including Mandriva and
Ubuntu - both with GNOME) and in the same space never saw such a
notification.
I wiped the Linux partitions each time when I installed a different Linux
OS.
But when I last went back to Fedora (then rawhide, now F11) it appeared
again. This only happens when running Fedora 11 in GNOME. I also run
Fedora 11 with KDE and Xfce and never receive such notices (or anything
close to it).
Here's how the partitions are set up (if it matters):
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_ava-lv_root
30G 20G 9.5G 68% /
proc 0 0 0 - /proc
sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys
devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
/dev/sda5 194M 23M 162M 13% /boot
tmpfs 3.9G 520K 3.9G 1% /dev/shm
none 0 0 0 - /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
sunrpc 0 0 0 - /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
gvfs-fuse-daemon 0 0 0 - /home/scott/.gvfs
/dev/sda3 404G 298G 106G 74% /media/Files
/dev/sda2 489G 337G 153G 69% /media/Windows
In the meantime, I get no such notices in Windows either.
During all of this, I'm dual booting Linux and Windows 7.
I don't know much about tools to check this in Linux, but I did download
a program a while back (I forget it's name now) for Windows that
specifically queries S.M.A.R.T. and the result was everything was fine.
My drive is exhibiting no odd behavior. It behaves as it should. I've had
drives fail many times in the past and this one is nowhere near leading
me to believe that a failure is eminent.
Oh, before I forget, when I had installed Mandriva (after a previous
Fedora install) in the same space I was given an option to check for bad
sectors, so I did (and that came up empty - everything was OK).
So I'm back to Fedora 11 now and the problem returns. This truly strange.
And lastly, here is a screenshot of what Fedora is telling me: http://
bit.ly/drive_is_failing
Your thoughts?
Thanks.
Scott
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