smartd errors

[Rick Stevens]

On 10/27/2015 10:39 AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> Folks,
>    recently I have started seeing these messages in /var/log/messages
>
> Oct 27 10:26:13 jackstraw smartd[1177]: Device: /dev/sde [SAT], 16
> Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
> Oct 27 10:26:13 jackstraw smartd[1177]: Device: /dev/sde [SAT], 16
> Offline uncorrectable sectors
>
> which are mounted as follows
>
> /dev/sde1 on /media/NSM/NSM-SENSOR-1 type ext4
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,seclabel,data=ordered)
> /dev/sde2 on /media/NSM/NSM-SENSOR-2 type ext4
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,seclabel,data=ordered)
>
> I have unmounted the filesystems and run fsck on them and fsck reports
> no errors.
>
> [pgaltieri at jackstraw ~]$ sudo fsck /dev/sde2
> fsck from util-linux 2.26.2
> e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
> NSM-SENSOR-2: clean, 11/45498368 files, 2905980/181964288 blocks
>
> [pgaltieri at jackstraw ~]$ sudo fsck /dev/sde1
> fsck from util-linux 2.26.2
> e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
> NSM-SENSOR-1: clean, 32/46080000 files, 2993510/184320000 blocks
>
> It only reports errors on this drive.
>
> Should I be concerned about what smartd is saying?  How do I, if
> possible, correct this?

The drive is dying. Get a new one, clone the old one to the new one,
and get rid of the old one.
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