Re: Disk failure

Adam Piggott <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Organization Proactive Services (Computing)
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 30/04/2015 08:28, Jørn Dahl-Stamnes wrote:
> A failure on a disk cause the /home paritition to be re-mounted as read-only.
> 
> After I rebooted I did a smartctl -d /dev/sda
> and got this. 
<snip>
> 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       55
> 
> I'm not sure if the disk is about to fail or not. Should I replace it ASAP or?

This attribute with such a high figure would mean I'd treat the drive as
"imminently failing". I would not even bother to try repairs, or to
consider the drive a viable spare.

I notice in your later emails in this thread, the attribute has incremented
again, which gives weight to this advice.
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Adam Piggott, Proprietor, Proactive Services (Computing)

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