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. >> 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. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- 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
