Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Monday, 2009-09-28 at 15:41 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
Did you try the dd command twice. Maybe it took 25 seconds to do the first realloc, and now all is well.
Well, I just tried it again with very similar results, although this time it took 27 seconds to do nothing ;)
Run the smart tests (smartctl).
This morning I got a friendly mail message from smart: The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/sda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW! I had tried to run smart yesterday but got no output. Today I tried again and left it running for some minutes with the following result: # smartctl -H /dev/sda smartctl version 5.37 [x86_64-suse-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED! Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA. Failed Attributes: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 058 058 062 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 246553639 So I've got a new drive (bigger, faster :) and am now figuring out the best way to replace the failing one. Many thanks to Greg and you for your help, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org