do I have to worry about these disk errors?
Jussi Lehtola
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org
Sun Jun 7 15:04:04 UTC 2009
On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 09:31 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 16:41 +0300, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
>
> > You can verify the diagnosis with
> >
> > # smartctl -A /dev/sda
> >
> > If you have a nonzero number in one or more of the following fields
> > Reallocated_Sector_Ct
> > Current_Pending_Sector
> > Offline_Uncorrectable
> > then your hard drive is failing. Especially if you have something in
> > the latter two you should panic.
>
> I was getting a report myself via the gui applet that my sd was failing
> (this damn thing isn't even a year old), so I ran the command above..
Yes, it's going bad, so replace it if you don't want to play Russian
roulette with your data.
[I installed two 1.5 TB disks @work a week ago and one of them already
failed.]
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Jussi Lehtola
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