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Well, it may not be that simple. I keep meaning to make this a bug report, but can't get to it. I regularly get a warning message on logging into KDE that my hard disk is about to fail, whith the following info in the logs Mar 16 21:44:26 myrosia-home2 smartd[3641]: Device: /dev/sda, 230905559 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Mar 16 21:44:26 myrosia-home2 smartd[3641]: Device: /dev/sda, 46300938 Offline uncorrectable sectors I have used this machine for 8 months now getting the same messages (numbers are changing), and no crash as yet. My co-worker has the exact same hardware, but 10.3 instead of 11.0, and he is getting the same messages. His machine has functioned without any trouble for 18 months now. So I am not sure what's going on with SMART for us, but by now I believe that it's not going to crash anytime soon (even though I backup as a matter of good practice) Myrosia On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Khawar Nehal <khawar.nehal@gmail.com> wrote:
Your harddisk is about to fail. Make a backup and replace it ASAP.
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2009-03-07 at 20:35 +0100, Sascha 'saigkill' Manns wrote:
Hello Mates,
today i found in my logdigest the following:
Messages matching keywords in the "alarming" list: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- (1 lines) Mar 7 12:01:52 linux-eh47 smartd[3228]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], SMART Prefailure Attribute: 10 Spin_Retry_Count changed from 231 to 232
What says me that?
A priori, only that a value has changed.
Make sure that smart is configured to send emails to you on alarms. The file is "/etc/smartd.conf". I'm not sure it is configured by default to do so. Then, you can heed those warnings, and ignore logdigest.
Now, to see the full smartd log, run as root:
smartctl -a /dev/sdb
I think you have to examine the column "WHEN_FAILED". You will see that one of the lines is similar to the one you saw in the logdigest. Some of the attributes are "Pre-fail", which mean they warn about impending failure, and others "Old_age". There was a thread recently about this with links to more info.
The command "smartctl -H /dev/sdb" will tell you fast how things are. You could also run the long disk self test:
smartctl --test=short /dev/sdb
and when it finishes, the long one:
smartctl --test=long /dev/sdb
The result of the test you can look with "smartctl -a /dev/sdb" (and other combinations, see the manual - it's good, for a change :-) )
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