disk failure?

[Steven Stern]

On 12/11/2012 04:22 PM, L wrote:
> Hi
> The disk utility shows one of my disks are failling. I check it using
> 
> sudo e2fsck -f -c -v /dev/sdb1
> e2fsck 1.42 (29-Nov-2011)
> Checking for bad blocks (read-only test):   0.00% done, 0:00 elapsed.
> (0/0/0 errdone                                                
> 500G: Updating bad block inode.
> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> Pass 2: Checking directory structure
> Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
> Pass 4: Checking reference counts
> Pass 5: Checking group summary information
> 
> 500G: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
> 
>   124186 inodes used (0.41%)
>     2600 non-contiguous files (2.1%)
>      195 non-contiguous directories (0.2%)
>          # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 0/0/0
>          Extent depth histogram: 120688/867
> 52973023 blocks used (43.39%)
>        0 bad blocks
>        1 large file
> 
>   118955 regular files
>     2148 directories
>        0 character device files
>        0 block device files
>        0 fifos
>        0 links
>     3074 symbolic links (2623 fast symbolic links)
>        0 sockets
> --------
>   124177 files
> 
> I am confused if this disk is really failing??
> 
> Yuan

> 
> 

What does smartctl /dev/sdb -H and smartctl /dev/sdb -a show?

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-- Steve