SMART - Please shut up!!

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Jun 10 14:12:27 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 18:41:34 -0400,
  Andrew Jamison <linux at blogmethat.net> wrote:
>>    
> lol the drive is reporting as failing because of 2 bad sectors when I  
> can afford to it shall be replaced but can not afford a new drive at  
> present maybe next month

You might be running smartd (part of smartmontools). I forget if that's
the default or not. You can just disable the service if it is the culprit.




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