On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 12:30 -0500, eliwap wrote: > Thanks Martin for all your great advise. I ran smartctl -xall /dev/sdb. It came back with a whole lot of info that I can't make heads or tails of. It said that there were some kind of errors. > > I was wondering if I can post them here and you could take a look at the output? > That's OK by me, and I hope the rest of the list is also happy. IMO everybody should run smartd as a matter of course to get warning when a disk is going sour. If you havent already done this, set your mail alias so the local MTA (usually sendmail) will redirects all mail sent to root to your usual login - the one where you pick up your e-mail. By doing this you'll see the smartd short status reports, which should be part of the daily logwatch report. I also configure smartd to produce a more detailed report, like the one you requested via smartctl, on a weekly basis. As the full report is quite long, put it in pastebin and post the URL here. I make no guarantees about spotting the problem, though. Martin
