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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 :-) ) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmy4a4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VtaACfWMptbPZ54MFAB+or96+V3SrQ OdIAn3TCT2S60F+lJX+7DhcVNCvv/UVW =G+s1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org