On 2013/06/21 15:32, Paul Smith wrote:
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:09 PM, jdow <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Today, I am getting this message at boot time:
"Notice - HD self monitoring system has reported that a parameter has
exceeded its normal operating range. Dell recommends that you back up
your data regularly. A parameter out of range may or may not indicate
a potential Hard. Press F1 to continue , F2 to enter setup"
Is there any reason to be worried about?
My computer is about 3 years old.
For each drive on your system, try
sudo smartctl -H /dev/sdx
where x=a,b,c,.... etc
If any indicate poor health, then use "--all" in place of -H
However, yeah, it's probably time to get a really good backup and price
a replacement drive.
Thanks, Steve. I am getting the following:
# smartctl -H /dev/sda
smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.9.6-200.fc18.x86_64] (local
build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.
Failed Attributes:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 013 013 036 Pre-fail
Always FAILING_NOW 3587
Paul, when disks start throwing that error it's typically "months"
or less before it does something unfriendly like failing to spin up.
Put a replacement drive high on your list of things to do. Done soon
enough a "dd" disk copy may salvage your current installation with
minimum headache. Wait very long and you may have grown problems in
critical files.
Thanks for your advice, Jdow. i will soon get another disk.
By the way, how can I save my current installation with dd? And how I
can restore that onto the new disk?
Paul
Log in with a rescue or install disk and both drives. I am presuming old
drives is /dev/sda and new drive is /dev/sdb. Make REAL sure the new drive
is larger than the old drive. (If it is enough larger you can use the
extra space as another partition by playing with the partitioning program
of choice.)
dd conv=noerror,notrunc bs=1048576 if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb &
Note the process number. You can use kill -USR1 id (the process id).
{^_^}
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