I keep misreading the the subject of this email thread as: "Why does one get mustaches?" cc On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Brett Russ <bruss@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/20/2010 05:30 PM, Majed B. wrote: >> >> He needs to run a full offline or long test before checking with >> smartctl -a -- since it won't show any sector errors if those tests >> weren't run at least once. > > Not sure I agree with that. The md checks he's been doing will cause a read > of all data regions of the relevant partition and if the disk is throwing > errors, those sectors should be marked probational. Then, if a subsequent > repair ends up remapping them, those sectors will show up as remapped. > > The grep will show both probational and remapped sector counts for each > drive. > > BTW, the cmd should also include an echo so it's easy to tell which drive is > being reported: > > for di in a b c d e f g; do echo $di; smartctl -a /dev/sd$di | grep -i > _sect; done > > -BR > > -- > 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 > -- Chris Chen <muffaleta@xxxxxxxxx> "The fact that yours is better than anyone else's is not a guarantee that it's any good." -- Motivational Poster -- 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
