On 09-09-23 09:29:56, Gene Poole wrote: > I've very recently upgraded 2 of my machines. One machine was > upgraded from Fedora 9 to Fedora 11, and the other machine was > upgraded from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11. On machine 1 I have 2-hard > disks (both Seagate's - 500 GB and 1000 GB), on machine 2 I have 1- > hard disk (Western Digital 320 GB). All of the interfaces are SATA. > The questionable status is that on machine 1 the 500 GB drive is > showing as failing and on machine 2 the 20 GB drive is showing as > failing. Neither drive, under the old releases, showed up as failing. > How do I know that these drive are truly failing? 1) Wait. If the disk is going bad, it will fail. 2) Run as root `smartctl -A /dev/sdx` (for each sdx) and look at the "WHEN_FAILED" column; it will be "-" if not failed. 3) Run as root `smartctl -a /dev/sdx` (for each sdx) and look at the whole output. 4) Run as root `smartctl -t long /dev/sdx` (for each sdx) and wait until the time the test should finish, then view the results with `smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdx` (for each sdx) or `smartctl -a /dev/ sdx` (for each sdx). See `man smartctl`. Note that the new disk health monitoring tool "palimpsest" in package gnome-disk-utility is panicky and not to be trusted, unless you like buying lots of hard drives. It doesn't just look at "WHEN_FAILED", but has its own criteria such as nonzero Reallocated_Event_Count, which is fairly normal for a modern drive that has been in use for a while. A nonzero Current_Pending_Sector or Offline_Uncorrectable are bad, as they mean data loss, though not general drive failure. I recommend enabling Automatic Offline Testing with `smartctl -o on /dev/sdx` (for each sdx), which will do a surface scan every few hours, giving the best chance to repair or recover any sectors that are going bad. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
