Re: Disk failure
"Jørn Dahl-Stamnes" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools |
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On Thursday, April 30, 2015, Tim Small wrote: > On 30/04/15 08:28, Jørn Dahl-Stamnes wrote: > > I'm not sure if the disk is about to fail or not. Should I replace it > > ASAP or? > > Any non-readable sectors are a bad sign, but they can also be caused by > external causes such as poor power supply (or power failure during > write), or chassis vibration, so best to eliminate these if possible. > > I would backup all data (if you're not using RAID) and get the pending > sectors overwritten (method differs according to whether or not you're > using RAID), then do a SMART long self test. BTW, did a new smartctl -a on the device and got this lines: SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 5529 673565131 -- Jørn Dahl-Stamnes homepage: http://www.dahl-stamnes.net/dahls/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Smartmontools-support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support