Smartd error

[Suvayu Ali]

On Monday 13 September 2010 05:38 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Yesterday I got an internal email from smartd telling me
> of an error on one disk (on my server):
> ------------------------------
> Device: /dev/sdb, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
> ------------------------------
> I'm getting a copy of this email every hour.
>
> I'm not sure how serious a warning like this is.

A few weeks back I saw a similar warning and my disk started showing bad 
signs within a few days. RMA it as soon as possible! You can take a look 
at the archives for my posts under "understanding smart logs" around the 
15th of August.

> Also, I don't know how I can discover
> on which partition the problem occurs.
>

That might be trickier. You can find out the failing block number and 
deduce the partition from the SMART logs. Try doing a long offline test, 
and look at the logs.

# smartctl -t long /dev/sdb # to start the tests
# smartctl -a /dev/sdb      # to see the results

> Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
>

GL
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Suvayu

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