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[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Williams wrote:

> On Saturday 24 January 2009 11:48:43 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > On Saturday, 2009-01-24 at 11:23 -0000, Bob Williams wrote:
> > > This seems to imply that sdd has a bad sector at 1953519813, but md
> > > seems quite happy to rebuild the array?? Does that mean that, by
> > > chance, it didn't use that bad sector when rebuilding, but tomorrow
> > > it might try writing there, triggering another failure?
> >
> > Try running "smart" tests on the disks: first one, check if it needs
> > rebuilding when it fnishes, then the other.
> Sorry, can you tell me the command I need. Do I need any particular
> software installed?

You need smartmontools installed - then try something like this:

smartctl -a <disk device>



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/Per Jessen, Zürich

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