Richard. Thanks for the pointer, I shall look at that. I am still interested to know what the errors file provides a count of. Simon. -----Original Message----- From: Richard Scobie [mailto:richard@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 27 May 2009 20:35 To: Simon Jackson Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: FW: Detecting errors on the RAID disks. Simon Jackson wrote: > I have been looking for a way of detecting whether disks used in RAID sets have had errors that might indicate the drive is failing.. smartd, while not foolproof, offers some assistence here: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html