Smartd message: What does it mean?

[jdow]

Smartd reads the drives not the file systems, I believe. As such
grown bad blocks are a bad sign. Sometimes you CAN run for a long
time on such drives. All too often you lose it all with the drive
fails in a critical place.

{^_^}
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net" <d.terweij at nettuning.net>


> Hi
>
> I have 2 machines with such messages  and hdd's just running fine for 2+
> years. If ext2/3 fs is not marking such sectors as "bad, i dont use it
> anymore" then its about time that such things are going to be developed
> right? I do not want to replace a HDD if just 1 sector is marked bad at
> smartd. The smartd message is only showing up after a reboot overhere.
>
> Danny.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Daniel B. Thurman" <dant at cdkkt.com>
>
>
> Hmmm...  or does it mean I need to completely
> reformat or fsck this disk throughly to ensure
> that it is really going bad?  I am using FC4
> so I wonder if there is another reason...
>
> I will have to chek this out.
>
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Trying to understand this message, any ideas?
>>
>> This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on:
>>
>>   host name: xxx.xxx.com
>>  DNS domain: xxx.com
>>  NIS domain: (none)
>>
>> The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
>> Device: /dev/hdb, 14 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
>> For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages).
>
> It means you have 14 bad sectors on your /dev/hdb hard drive. It also
> means it is time to buy another drive and copy your data over to it.
>
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