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How are SMART selftests related to badblocks?
The smartctl tool allows initiating a long self-test (smartctl -t long /dev/sda). However there's also badblocks that I can run on a drive. How are the two related? If badblocks detects bad blocks, ...
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reallocate pending sector smartctl
smartctl is reporting smartctl_exit_status 64 after there was a current_pending_sector, so i think the data isn't still reallocated and i have to do it myself?
munin graph can be found here munin ...
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Drive is failing but LSI MegaRAID controller does not detect it
smartmontools reports an increasing number of unreadable sectors on a drive that is used in a RAID1 configuration. I thought that the LSI MegaRAID controller also checks the SMART status of its disk ...
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smartctl -A Missing Attributes
I'm reviewing SMART attribute data for different disks and notice that some disks report the following attributes while other disks don't:
241 0xF1 Total LBAs Written
242 0xF2 Total LBAs ...
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smartctl reports Current Pending Sectors as 2, but a long test doesn't find any errors
The SMART attributes on the drive are:
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH ...
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Does regularly running smartctl negatively affect disks?
I have many servers in different data centers. Lately I had some disk failures that I probably could've detected beforehand, so I started automatically running smartctl -t periodically on each disk. ...
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Monitoring disks from ServeRAID array
I am looking for a way to monitor individually the disks an array on a ServeRAID device using smartctl. The RAID is seen as a single disk /dev/sda by Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The ServeRAID is a ServeRAID - ...
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How to use hdparm to fix a pending sector?
SMART is stating one pending sector on of my server's hdd. I've read lot's of articles recommending using hdparm to "easily" force the disk to relocated the bad sector, but I can't find the correct ...
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smartctl not actually running self tests?
I want to run the smartctl self tests to check the health of the drives in my RAID array (PERC 5/i). The array is on sda and comprises six drives. I can check the status using
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smartctl for fedora 17
I got myself a hard drive that is making funny noises.
I want to check for errors, I want to use smartctl,
This command
[root@defiant ~]# smartctl -V
produces an error:
bash: smartctl: ...
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Is smartd properly configured to send alerts by email?
I just configured a Debian server as follows
apt-get install smartmontools
vi /etc/default/smartmontools - and here uncommented these 2 lines
# uncomment to start smartd on system startup
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smartctl short test doesn't seem to complete
I am working on project which involve automated HDD testing through smartctl.
The station is working fine on most product, but I have two specific products that fail the smartctl test.
Those two ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Server Software RAID1 - Faulty Spare - Smart Output Passed - Confused
I think I'm having an issue with one of the hard drives on my array and I'm just trying to troubleshoot what's happening.
Its saying Faulty Spare and then after reboot it just says removed:
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Understanding smartctl -a output
I have 6 drives in a NAS box. Two of them are Seagates, and they return high RAW_VALUES for errors; see below.
My other drives show far lower values.
Is this cause for alarm? Or just the way ...
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What does it imply if debugfs says Can't read next inode when doing inode scan?
I've got some bad sectors pending reallocation (based on smartmontools reports), and I'm trying to find out which file the sector is currently related to so that I can restore from a backup or such or ...
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How to interpret this smartctl (smartmon) data
We have a linux server that has been in heavy use for 3 years. We're running a number of virtualized servers on it, some that have not been well behaved, and for a significant time the server's io ...
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Why are SMART error rates going down?
I have a hard drive that's part of a Linux software raid5 array. SMART has reported that its multi_zone_error_rate was 0, then 1, then 3. So I figured I better start backing up more frequently and ...
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smartctl -t long isn't finishing
I been running smartctl -t long on a drive for about 2 days now and it seems to be stalled at 10%. short and conveyance both passed. I have to send 1 of 2 drives purchased back I found badblocks with ...
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Skipping scheduled self-tests and predicting drive EOL
For a few weeks now, smartd has been reporting that it is skipping some of its scheduled self-tests on the weekends:
Apr 24 18:29:32 calvin smartd[4758]: Device: /dev/sda, skip scheduled Offline ...
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What is a Linux device name for RAID of sas drives?
I have a RAID1 using Promise FastTrack TX2650 consisting of 2 SAS drives. What is a Linux device name for them? Like sda is for first sata drive. I have Windows server so I can't look it directly but ...
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How do I easily repair a single unreadable block on a Linux disk?
My Linux system has started throwing SMART errors in the syslog. I tracked it down and believe the problem is a single block on the disk. How do I go about easily getting the disk to reallocate that ...
